GNU bug report logs - #24062
Temporary NEWS markup still in RC

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 18:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 24062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Petton <nicolas <at> petton.fr>
Subject: Re: bug#24062: Temporary NEWS markup still in RC
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.





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