From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HTML-formatted NEWS for Emacs 29 Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:02:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83sf7w8kln.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3b142eba-fff4-b6d0-addd-4d970b40fde2@mavit.org.uk> <83wmy8pfk9.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 02 21:02:42 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qcVtK-0003C6-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2023 21:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcVsw-0005J4-Kf; Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcVst-00055T-I7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qcVst-00075d-5s; Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:02:15 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=iSKrN3kRmbBpf0LHMFPA5cCm8EL7oCaXOLiUUY2scHA=; b=HIdDvpXP94Yy pL4v9E4Uka7QTsfXRvj6wSSbWP3JpBRA643MhJbdyCjB2Zi1l1jHmtBdsCFoWK6gV38Bt0FrKcpA7 t670yTgfk4RKbAmwV0l5fomQ4EzZ3vBdVAPXvPHHfFE5LQwln1OE8JmFFRkW5LzdSjP7BX1vptSJN 5l8kzaY6tVmovx02iMxzl19S4H5SD4yY0t+YjQiHigiVeWOlRHF1DkyZoogxuHX0Vu8RBwier4HLM EVdFO05mkkMwmE4eldNPwbb/DYnNTzownJc8OsQcSIZVTzR4V8d9CjnM/0X2ZnzKblI1Smpc/tOOI /zHXKwyyM3mUJH2UW3ZZWQ==; In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 2 Sep 2023 11:49:35 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:309904 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 11:49:35 -0700 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > We never had HTML-formatted NEWS file on the Emacs Web page. There > > are no procedures to produce one that I'm aware of (at least the > > procedure for releasing Emacs, documented in admin/make-tarball.txt, > > doesn't mention that, it only says to copy the NEWS file itself to the > > "webpages" CVS repository, which is then uploaded to the Web server). > > > > According to CVS log, NEWS.28.html was added by Stefan Kangas (CC'ed). > > If Stefan can share the procedure he used to generate that file, and > > if that procedure is practical enough to be added to make-tarball.txt, > > we will follow it from now on. Alternatively, if Someone wants to > > volunteer to prepare such a file, I will upload it. > > > > (The existing NEWS file for Emacs 29.1, linked from the Emacs Web > > page, is not an Org file, it is the same NEWS file included in the > > Emacs distribution and available in the Git repository.) > > The code is already on the emacs-29 branch. Here are the instructions: > > cd $EMACS_RELEASE_DIR > ./src/emacs -l admin/admin.el -f make-news-html-file > mv etc/NEWS.XX.Y.html $EMACS_WEBROOT/news > cd $EMACS_WEBROOT > cvs commit -m "Update NEWS.XX.Y.html" news/NEWS.XX.Y.html > > Please see `make-news-html-file' in admin/admin.el for more details. > > If it is considered useful, we could indeed consider adding these > instructions to admin/make-tarball.txt. Yes, I think we should.