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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 17:07:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8t86cemt.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vabbd3ov.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net

>>> - A "News:" section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the
>>>   user-visible changes of each version.
>>> It's not clear to me that anything is actually done with that
>>> information.

It's used, but indeed it should be used more.

Some additional places where it could be used come to mind:
- in the automatic email notification sent to gnu.emacs.sources
- when viewing a package in package-list-packages
- as suggested by Christopher, when upgrading an installed package.


-- Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-26 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-25 11:47 Support for bringing package change logs to the user's attention Christopher Done
2018-05-25 11:50 ` Christopher Done
2018-05-25 14:26   ` Drew Adams
2018-05-25 14:31 ` Aaron Ecay
2018-05-25 16:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-25 17:16   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-25 17:51     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-26 21:07       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-05-26 21:48         ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-26 21:59           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-27  3:15             ` Van L
2018-05-28 20:34 ` John Wiegley
2018-06-26 17:59   ` Ted Zlatanov

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