Re: Emacs 28.2 released

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> AFAIU, you wanted to have there an HTML link to the NEWS file, is that
> correct?  If so, I can suggest adding to the above text the link to
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-28
>
> Would that be okay?

That proposal sounds okay to me, FWIW.

> One subtle issue here is that when we post the email announcement
> about a new release, the on-line manuals and the Emacs Web page are
> not yet up-to-date, so either a link to anything inside the Web pages
> will be outdated, or we will need to delay the announcement until the
> Web pages are updated, both of which are undesirable.  A link to Git
> above is thus a compromise that doesn't have these disadvantages.

That's exactly right.  While I do happen to think there is room for more
automation here, the link to git is a good compromise for now.