mapreduce/multiproc| Updating ChangeLog/Contributors/Release notes

doublethefish · doublethefish · commit 02e055aadf89 · 2020-03-28T15:08:02.000Z
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -377,3 +377,5 @@ contributors:
 * Slavfox: contributor
 
 * Matthew Beckers (mattlbeck): contributor
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+* Frank Harrison (doublethefish): contributor
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ What's New in Pylint 2.5.0?
 
 Release date: TBA
 
+* Introduces map/reduce concept for checkers that need to consolodate data across files after runs fixing certain catergories of multithreaded bug, e.g. SimilarChecker wih --jobs>1.
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+  Close #3314
 
 * Adjust the `invalid-name` rule to work with non-ASCII identifiers and add the `non-ascii-name` rule.
 
diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
@@ -92,3 +92,5 @@ Other Changes
   This command lists all extensions present in ``pylint.extensions``.
 
 * Various false positives have been fixed which you can read more about in the Changelog files.
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+* Fixes --jobs=2+ for similarity checking giving consitent results
