Subject: bug#37414: 26.3; (emacs) `Contributing': no `etc/CONTRIBUTE'

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:38:37 -0700

tags 37414 fixed
close 37414 28.1
thanks

Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:

> Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> These are binary zip files, not source tarballs.  You should look on
>>> ftp.gnu.org instead.
>>
>> How about improving the manual to explain what it
>> means by "the Emacs distribution", if that's not
>> what users download to install Emacs?
>
> On current master, this text says:
>
>      If you would like to make more extensive contributions, see the
>   ‘CONTRIBUTE’ file in the Emacs distribution for information on how to be
>   an Emacs developer.
>
> Perhaps we could just change "the Emacs distribution" to "the
> development version of Emacs"?

No further comments within a year, so I've now made this change on
master.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.