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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 50447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50447: [PATCH] Remove very old NEWS from the FAQ
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 01:22:23 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57628b19f1962c8847fd744ae20c8368@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnQyeqrKA7TQrwzGZHoRBx_v5WGE2e4R+-BfQH=U08J4Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2021-09-07 18:42, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> The intended audience of the FAQ is end-users, not core developers
> going spelunking.  It is not useful information for that audience.

I think they're (a) interesting, and (b) not causing any problems.

Reading the NEWS for a major release takes quite a long time, so
I think it's nice that there's also a small "selected highlights"
for historical releases.  As a user, I think it's interesting to
learn when Emacs acquired certain features.

Moreover, the node which gets you to them is tiny -- this small
list of links surely isn't taking up any undesirable space, and
no one who isn't interested in the history is going to be following
those links; so to me they seem entirely harmless (for all users),
and useful (for some users).  On that basis, I wouldn't remove them.


-Phil






  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-07 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07  1:31 bug#50447: [PATCH] Remove very old NEWS from the FAQ Stefan Kangas
2021-09-07  6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07  6:42   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-07  8:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 13:22     ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-09-07 14:49     ` bug#50447: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-07 14:43   ` Drew Adams
2021-09-07 15:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-07 16:22   ` Stefan Kangas

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