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: Emacs 28.2 released Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:52:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83edwf46gp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wna8ia11.fsf@red-bean.com> <835yhs57m6.fsf@gnu.org> <83tu5b4h3d.fsf@gnu.org> <878rmnnvhb.fsf@red-bean.com> <83fsgv46mf.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33208"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: kfogel@red-bean.com, stefankangas@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 13 17:59:47 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 1oY8KA-0008Np-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:59:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55516 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oY8K9-0000eL-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36300) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oY8DT-0003U7-LQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oY8DT-00077T-Bz; Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:52:51 -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=U8gn4XKd4aQNB10P4Z/5GzuKoieTd31YH7PUd+mVYa4=; b=Yq464+sy+1RC FvS4t9cgJVUj1Fyf/0qpJnEFtmVklAQUsHVTSixBU9OElM1Z+S29y8qheQN7TMmIxZmsiPgpShD9I EIzZYo0AS3+x8nFQV/bQ1kllaHWekN91k/gAHjHQlcmS7r3qh+GuA3W9wGvdOUVJxJa2ImXebZGKa I+B+RihXON3nCLo+S16M3ttMzwQTcTE0I5UMifZbnlNGoXW7iZbiIyxybPHp6Oqr0Ld2h6ofXXste YxVnhSxRQEbZxhPxfiUnQU2gVoTdytneAP9E1jrC7CiYvh157pFGlDpEIOfzqcbc9lNQtj3FDI3Xa OuVS5+NYz/0ms8EG6zXbWQ==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4527 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 1oY8DS-0002du-Rv; Tue, 13 Sep 2022 11:52:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83fsgv46mf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:49:12 +0300) 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:295261 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:49:12 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > From: Karl Fogel > > Cc: Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:29:36 -0500 > > > > My proposal was that the email announcement should always contain > > a link to release notes, so that those who see the email can > > easily go straight to more details about what's in the new > > release. > > If so, I'm not sure I agree. Other projects do that, or even post the > entire contents of NEWS as part of the announcement. But our NEWS is > so large that posting it really makes no sense, and I won't expect > anyone to read the entire NEWS file, only search it for issues > relevant to him/her. > > This is one case where doing what others do makes no sense. And one more thing: announcements of major releases do include a short list of main new features. This is minor release, where the only "new" things are bugfixes, so we don't include such a list in this case.