Subject: Re: bug#24062: Temporary NEWS markup still in RC

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:44:59 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Our release documentation doesn't really fit the RCn type of
> semi-releases.

I think it does, but improvements always welcome.

> AFAIR, in the entire history of Emacs since the 1990s, only one
> release ever had an RC, all the rest went straight from a pretest to
> an official release.

Nope. Every member of the 24 series, and at least most/all of the 23
series had one or more RCs.