Re: Emacs 28.2 released

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

On 13 Sep 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, 
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:29:36 -0500
>> 
>> My proposal was that the email announcement should always 
>> contain 
>> a link to release notes, so that those who see the email can 
>> easily go straight to more details about what's in the new 
>> release.
>
>If so, I'm not sure I agree.  Other projects do that, or even 
>post the
>entire contents of NEWS as part of the announcement.  But our 
>NEWS is
>so large that posting it really makes no sense, and I won't 
>expect
>anyone to read the entire NEWS file, only search it for issues
>relevant to him/her.
>
>This is one case where doing what others do makes no sense.

I was not suggesting including the contents of the NEWS file.  I 
was suggesting including a *link to* the NEWS file, so that those 
who are interested can follow the link.

That is what others do -- I can't think of another project that 
doesn't do this in their release announcement emails, in fact -- 
and I think we should do it too.

Best regards,
-Karl