From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to properly document that a feature is new Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9bb242ca-8559-40da-868c-5ea4c78948c8@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431375966 3503 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 20:26:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 20:26:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com, emacs-devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 22:25:58 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YruGy-0005yT-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 22:25:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YruGx-0000K4-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33061) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YruGl-0000Jy-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YruGh-0002Me-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:37901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YruGh-0002Ma-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:39 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRjCFDCQECAQKDPgMNBAUEA4NTBKNjhFg X-IPAS-Result: AgUFAGvvdVRFpYts/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOhb4EIgXUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIE6IRjCFDCQECAQKDPgMNBAUEA4NTBKNjhFg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="119211369" Original-Received: from 69-165-139-108.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.139.108]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 11 May 2015 16:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A7E983450; Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:35 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <9bb242ca-8559-40da-868c-5ea4c78948c8@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 11 May 2015 11:12:29 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:186436 Archived-At: > The current doc should describe the current release of Emacs. It can > mention that XYZ started with version N.M of Emacs, if that is really > needed for some reason (e.g. security), but that should be the case > rarely, if at all. > (My opinion, not necessarily official policy.) Additionally to being your opinion, it's actually the official policy, indeed. Stefan