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> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:13:44 -0400
> 
> I think it is better to insist that people provide full
> descriptions for NEWS, rather than that they write text for
> the manual.

I agree, and I didn't mean to say that the text must be installed in
the manual.  It could be in NEWS, or it could be elsewhere.  The
important part is that it's a required part of any code contribution,
and that terse one-sentence notes in NEWS are not good enough.