On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:37:26AM +0200, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I think that giving outline-mode an option to call org-mode
> > would enable every user to be happy.  In addition, people who like Org mode
> > would probably like this in general.
> 
> M-x org-mode
> 
> But I believe this is not the basic point of the request. People have
> asked to "enrich" files like etc/NEWS with org-mode constructs. For the
> records, I don't like this idea. I'm not an active org-mode user, and I
> don't believe we shall force Emacs developers to learn org-mode in order
> to edit such files.

Absolutely. And I say that as a longstanding Org mode user.

The question should rather be: what constructs are missing in etc/NEWS,
if any?

Cheers
-- tomás