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Feature (workflow) request: conflict-free way of creating NEWS.md

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#34,332 opened on Jan 10, 2020

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Description

As an occasional contributor, I find resolving conflict in NEWS.md rather cumbersome, especially when it is the only conflict that is blocking review/merge. For large projects, I think it's common to create a news file in a conflict-free manner. Can you implement such a work flow in Julia?

Here's a few examples that I know:

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Research direction
Investigate existing conflict free NEWS generation tools like blurb (Python) and IPython's custom scripts. Consider implementing a directory based news fragment approach combined with a script to merge fragments into NEWS.md. Explore integration with Julia's build system.
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2
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