From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master df8e705eb2 1/2: Don't refer to Emacs 24.3 or older in FAQ Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 08:49:01 +0300 Message-ID: <83a67r367m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83lerc2msb.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15812"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 07:51:56 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSG3-0003zx-Bv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:51:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48944 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSG2-0005LV-98 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSD2-0003wd-OQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48686) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSD2-0002mS-AA; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:48:48 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=jHJHoCSoODx8Fp890mIQtwRKBCHvkeRiNLPxKNOKtPY=; b=Z1AjmuIBTiyH 4C4WQ0g9nuMLB5LWPBlfLhZVEb1dKXXU2bPt2GrJL3n374ipWnoppbIKw4lfvF/o/7klf6bX79s29 SuI1oX1FoRTDF1qe4KNMAqipGS+Ix4Dm/vjwuzLHuBmPMofBtqBMyZtOd4/wBTuo9CJE8Zxg3Trgz 1ZjdEyzoYN6A1zIELPlXbCNMs4wUc2Rl+elk+rStxkapppP0axHuMxXFb7n/YST/mIRtCEfrcdGY1 FUtfzitFrFWQJVmEpcO58KMXYsYY2NWW3yRz5jECVeMK8jmGW+6C4aMjLNZDTWyuXiGCMSKB0CADM CvYYpAaDANURxIPnN7mQTQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=3644 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oRSD1-0003k2-IN; Fri, 26 Aug 2022 01:48:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:33:26 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294129 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:33:26 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I'm not sure this is a good idea. The FAQ is special, unlike the rest > > of our documentation, in that it doesn't target only the version with > > which it comes. > > I followed our normal obsoletion policy, where we have deleted things > after 10 years. But I see your point. We could perhaps decide for how > long we want to keep things, and then add a note to that effect to > efaq.texi? That way, it'll be easier to maintain some consistency going > forward. For example, how about adding a note to remove references to > Emacs versions released more than 15 years ago (or something like that)? > > > I see no particular reason to remove those references to old versions > > from the FAQ. > > Sure, I guess it's more a matter of when they're old enough to be a bit > irrelevant. (Any feature was technically introduced in some version, > but we don't always mention it.) What would be the reason to remove references to old Emacs versions from the FAQ? I'm thinking maybe we should simply exempt the FAQ from this process, which is, of course, perfectly valid for the other documentation. The FAQ is supposed to be a place where people could look for information like "since when does Emacs do this-and-that?".