stale WhatsNew

[John Hein]

Thanks for that, Martin.

The "overview of new features" format (e.g.,
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Release5.3) is nice for some of the
detail it provides.

The other WhatsNew format that has one-liner entries for different
categories (e.g., "amend: add option to update to the current user")
was valuable for comprehensive coverage _and_ quick scanning for
changes (including correlation to bug entries).  The "BC" and "API"
tags were very useful as well.  It also seems like it could be
automated (or at least a healthy portion of it) from commit messages.
It almost looks like it was [partly?] automated.  If so, please point
to the script (even if it's not quite polished).

One person's feedback: I'll miss the latter format if it's not being
generated anymore.

I'd like to also cast a vote for not dropping the smaller point
releases in the change notes.

Martin von Zweigbergk wrote at 16:05 -0800 on Feb  3, 2020:
 > I've updated that page with a link to the page for the 5.3 release. I also
 > added one for 5.2.
 > 
 > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:45 PM Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > It's extremely manual. The point releases for 5.2 were, to my memory,
 > > pretty minor. Someone else has been doing release notes lately, but I'm not
 > > sure if they know  about WhatsNew. I'll BCC them on this.
 > >
 > > > On Feb 3, 2020, at 16:42, John Hein <2xfaanyctv at snkmail.com> wrote:
 > > >
 > > > The last couple releases have not been documented in
 > > > https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew
 > > >
 > > > What's the process for generating that content?