There are certainly cases where we've had newsworthy things that were not connected to a release. For instance, important projects migrating to use Launchpad services (e.g. Ubuntu, Zope 3, etc). So I agree that having the flexibility to add these items without a code change is worth it.
There are certainly cases where we've had newsworthy things that were not connected to a release. For instance, important projects migrating to use Launchpad services (e.g. Ubuntu, Zope 3, etc). So I agree that having the flexibility to add these items without a code change is worth it.