On Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 6:58:38 PM UTC, William wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 11:09:53 PM UTC, Volker Braun wrote: > >> > >> There is a somewhat painless approach to generating human-readable > release > >> notes using https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier. As far as the ticket > >> author is concerned, if you think that your ticket #12435 is of wider > >> interest and should be announced then all you'd have to do is add a > file > >> > >> echo "Added the last twin prime" > newsfragments/12435.feature > >> > >> Note that the fragment filename starts with the ticket number, so it > won't > >> conflict with other news fragments. Then, when making a new release, I > >> concatenate the fragments into NEWS.rst as, for example, in > >> https://github.com/hawkowl/towncrier/blob/master/NEWS.rst > > > > > > One way or another, without human interference the news built this way > will > > be skewed in some way. > > We need a way to prioritise tickets in a way that would preclude bias. > > The most natural would be polling of tickets for news-priority, and then > > aggregating the result of the poll > > in a good way (there are results on how to fight bias this way, I am > told). > > Otherwise our news will go the way FB's news went. :-) > > Dima -- Are you (1) volunteering to build such a system, and just > asking for feedback, or (2) asking somebody else to do this? > > Just curious, since it's not clear... If (1), what resources do you > need/have? >
There is a deliverable in OpenDreamKit workpackage 7 where such a thing would fit. The expertise to choose a suitable aggregation rule for the poll results is in house (literally - my wife does research on this sort of stuff, computational social choice :-)). One has to decide how many tickets we want to highlight for a release. 30? 50? Dima > > -- William > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "sage-devel" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > > email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > William (http://wstein.org) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
