Comment 2 for bug 529213

When you file bugs please at least take a stab at importance as immediate/soon/later (critical/high/other). We can always change it or do them out-of-order.

As a straw man I'd like to see this go through the rules configuration layer so you can have

cat >>.bzrrules
[NEWS*]
  merge_helper = news

There may be a better name corresponding to the internal interface name.

Then we can later also allow for them to be looked up by file-id properties, global configuration, or in other means.