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    Hi,<br>
    OK, I think I have done that.<br>
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    Because we are short on time I cut and pasted the release note
    fragments from my spreadsheet into the NEWS file with Apostrophe MD
    file editor and whipped them into shape manually.<br>
    First time using it and it is pretty good. Obviously, this was a
    manual process, but it wasn't too onerous.<br>
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    I couldn't get the towncrier thingy to work anyway. I don't really
    have much experience with python and pip. Python seems an awful lot
    more complicated since the last time I used it :(<br>
    <br>
    I have pushed the release notes in NEWS to your branch.<br>
    <br>
    Cheers,<br>
    Ralph<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-02-04 18:18, m. allan noah
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        <div>Awesome, thanks! I'm working on updating doc/releases.md,
          which I find to be hard to use. Maybe if you keep some notes
          on what you did, I can incorporate your method instead of
          towncrier.</div>
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        <div>allan<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 9:12 PM
          Ralph Little <<a href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com"
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          <div> Hi,<br>
            In this case I didn't generate the towncrier files. It's a
            lot of faff if you don't do it as you go along.<br>
            I just put them into a spreadsheet.<br>
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            I will try to generate the release notes from that.<br>
            <br>
            Cheers,<br>
            Ralph<br>
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            <div>On 2023-02-04 17:57, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
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                <div>I have pushed a branch called 'release-1.2.x'. I
                  don't have this 'towncrier' thing, so maybe you can
                  run that and merge the release notes?</div>
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                <div>allan<br>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at
                  11:39 AM m. allan noah <<a
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                    <div>Awesome, thanks! I'll probably take a first
                      stab at it on the 4th, and see if I can follow our
                      current instructions.</div>
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                    <div>allan<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 28,
                      2023 at 8:43 PM Ralph Little <<a
                        href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com" target="_blank"
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                      <div> Hi,<br>
                        I have prepared the release notes whenever you
                        are ready!<br>
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                        Cheers,<br>
                        Ralph<br>
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                        <div>On 2023-01-24 08:33, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
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                          <div dir="auto">Sounds good to me, thanks for
                            your help. I'm traveling this week, and
                            won't be able to work on this until the
                            weekend.</div>
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                            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue,
                              Jan 24, 2023, 10:47 AM Ralph Little <<a
                                href="mailto:skelband@gmail.com"
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                              rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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                              On 2023-01-01 15:54, m. allan noah wrote:<br>
                              > It has been nearly a year since our
                              last release, and there have been <br>
                              > many changes and bug fixes. I'd like
                              to get 1.2.1 released in early <br>
                              > February. I've not done it in a few
                              years, but I am certainly willing <br>
                              > to make the release package.<br>
                              ><br>
                              > Any objections to a code freeze on
                              Jan 22, and a release on Feb 5?<br>
                              ><br>
                              > allan<br>
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                              I think if we are going for your proposed
                              plan, then we are official in <br>
                              code freeze for 1.2.1.<br>
                              If you want to proceed, I can prepare
                              release notes.<br>
                              <br>
                              Cheers,<br>
                              Ralph<br>
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