From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Release update
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:27:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812042227.mB4MR0sZ004171@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873ah3ipl7.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (Chong Yidong's message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:43:16 -0500")
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>
> > May I suggest that writing a release announcement be part of the
> > release process? Something short that summarizes the most important
> > features would be good to give people reasons to look further in NEWS
> > and to upgrade, and it's good for PR. Not everyone wants to read the
> > 2000 lines NEWS file...
>
> We do include a feature summary in the release announcement; see, for
> instance, the 21.1 and 22.1 release announcements. This is written up
The 22.1 announcement is the one I had in mind, and it could be improved
a lot. Something like:
- New modes and packages, including Calc, Grep, TRAMP, URL, IDO,
CUA, ERC, rcirc, Table, Image-Dired, SES, Ruler, Org, PGG,
Flymake, Password, Printing, Reveal, wdired, t-mouse,
longlines, savehist, Conf mode, Python mode, DNS mode, etc.
- Abbrev definitions are read automatically at startup.
is not too helpful for a lot of users. IMHO the announcement should be
readable for people that are not intimately familiar with the emacs internals.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 2:43 Release update Chong Yidong
2008-12-04 17:08 ` Yavor Doganov
2008-12-04 18:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-04 19:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-04 19:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-04 22:55 ` Adrian Robert
2008-12-08 16:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-12-05 2:12 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-12-05 2:44 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-12-04 19:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-12-04 19:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-05 12:08 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-05 12:44 ` richardeng
2008-12-05 15:49 ` Emacs on GNUstep (was: Release update) Stefan Monnier
2008-12-06 4:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-06 6:59 ` richardeng
2008-12-06 7:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-06 16:05 ` richardeng
2008-12-06 17:22 ` Emacs on GNUstep Chong Yidong
2009-05-02 6:28 ` Emacs on GNUstep (was: Release update) YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-03 19:38 ` Emacs on GNUstep Stefan Monnier
2009-05-04 8:16 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-04 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-06 2:36 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-05-06 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-03 22:45 ` Emacs on GNUstep (was: Release update) Yavor Doganov
2009-05-04 8:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2008-12-04 19:51 ` Release update Dan Nicolaescu
2008-12-04 21:43 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-04 22:27 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-22 14:32 Chong Yidong
2008-12-22 19:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-22 23:47 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-23 11:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-23 11:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-12-22 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-22 23:04 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-22 23:28 ` Leo
2008-12-23 0:17 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 0:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-12-23 2:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 2:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 6:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-12-23 7:42 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-12-23 8:19 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 16:34 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 16:45 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-12-23 16:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 17:16 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 17:47 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 19:02 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-12-23 19:43 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 17:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 17:20 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-12-23 17:23 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-22 23:53 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-23 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-23 6:35 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-23 7:18 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-12-23 7:41 ` Drew Adams
2008-12-22 23:54 ` Chong Yidong
2008-12-23 1:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-12-23 4:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-23 4:40 ` Kenichi Handa
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