Re: Emacs 28.2 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:49:12 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> > Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,  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.