Re: Emacs 28.2 released

[Karl Fogel]

On 13 Sep 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

I was not suggesting including the contents of the NEWS file.  I 
was suggesting including a *link to* the NEWS file, so that those 
who are interested can follow the link.

That is what others do -- I can't think of another project that 
doesn't do this in their release announcement emails, in fact -- 
and I think we should do it too.

Best regards,
-Karl