From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The next releases Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:43 -0500 Message-ID: <4slhzcl0r4.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <625A3C9C-ACF2-42A0-B4E8-8ABDDA060131@pacbell.net> <87ob4k3lny.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <87y53c9wjz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387768304 15928 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2013 03:11:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:11:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 23 04:11:51 2013 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 1Vuvvp-0007fQ-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 04:11:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vuvvp-0000TR-ED for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vuvvl-0000TJ-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vuvvk-00039M-F0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33407) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vuvvk-00039I-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vuvvj-0001x9-PO; Sun, 22 Dec 2013 22:11:43 -0500 X-Spook: bce Ruby Ridge Plame JSOFC3IP e-bomb morse pink noise X-Ran: H8>\I72pP~+\!e|?}v+x&QwxI_q~/p+QgFzFP9;r,8no{+q0%Lu"joMh6V9#)*c X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87y53c9wjz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:37:52 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:166759 Archived-At: My general comment is: never hesitate to make a NEWS entry. Not giving it any +++/--- markup means someone will check it. Ted Zlatanov wrote: > +--- > +** Emacs now detects and uses GnuTLS v3 features Quibbling about language, but I'd say something like: ** Emacs now uses GnuTLS v3 features where available. But as a user, this tells me nothing, so I'm not sure I see the point of this entry as it stands. > +++ > +** Emacs can now reject invalid SSL/TLS certificates, as determined by > +GnuTLS The new variable `gnutls-verify-error' can be customized. It > +is off for now, but will be turned to reject invalid certificates by > +default in the future. [If this is a new option, it should have a :version tag.] ** New option `gnutls-verify-error', if non-nil, means that Emacs should reject SSL/TLS certificates that GnuTLS determines as invalid. (This option defaults to nil at present, but this is expected to change in a future release.) > + > ++++ > ** Emacs now supports menus on text-mode terminals. Did you mean to add that markup? It seems an unrelated change. > +** CFEngine mode It seems redundant to say "CFEngine mode..." in all the following, given that the whole section is about CFEngine mode. > + > +*** CFEngine mode has completion and ElDoc support [...] > +*** CFEngine mode has Flycheck support for on-the-fly syntax checking *** Support for completion, ElDoc, and Flycheck has been added. > +*** CFEngine mode can parse the current syntax from cf-promises I have no idea what that means, but I'm not a CFEngine user, so that may be expected. > ++++ > +*** `describe-package' buffer uses the `:keywords extra property to > +display keyword buttons. Clicking them shows the list of packages > +that have that keyword. *** In the buffer produced by `describe-package', there are now buttons listing the keywords related to that package. You can click on them to see other packages related to any given keyword. > ++++ > +*** the list of packages now shows the archive *** The output of `list-packages' now includes the archive providing each package. [Though this will be self-evident, so I'm not sure it is worth mentioning.] > ++++ > +*** the list of packages can now be filtered by a keyword I don't understand what this really means. The wording makes me think it's somehow related to the list-packages command, but it does not seem to be. Second general comment is that NEWS entries should be grammatical: start with a capital, end with a full-stop.