Documenting What's New
When making a new pull request that either adds a new feature, or makes a
backwards-incompatible change to IPython, please add a new .rst
file in this
directory documenting this change as a part of your Pull Request.
This will allow multiple Pull Requests to do the same without conflicting with
one another. Periodically, IPython developers with commit rights will run a
script and populate developement.rst with the contents
of this directory, and clean it up.
Files which describe new features can have any name, such as
antigravity-feature.rst
, whereas backwards incompatible changes should have a
filename of incompat-switching-to-perl.rst
. Our "What's new" files always have
two sections, and this prefix scheme will make sure that the backwards
incompatible changes get routed to their proper section.