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26.3; (emacs) `Contributing': no `etc/CONTRIBUTE'

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 37414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37414: 26.3; (emacs) `Contributing': no `etc/CONTRIBUTE'
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:57:44 +0300

> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:16:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Cc: 37414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > No idea what "the source tree" means here.  That node tells
> > > users to look for file CONTRIBUTE "in the Emacs distribution".
> > > Where is it in the Emacs distribution?
> > 
> > In the source tarball, in the top-level directory.
> 
> What's that?  I have an "Emacs distribution" for 26.3, from here
> (the location announced in emacs-devel <at> gnu.org on 2019-09-01): 
> 
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__alpha.gnu.org_gnu_emacs_pretest_windows_emacs-2D26_&d=DwICAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=kI3P6ljGv6CTHIKju0jqInF6AOwMCYRDQUmqX22rJ98&m=7le47_VmxC77S4y7ZAEyhihP7eM9uhQzgEyuCq2jGAE&s=lZL3oWwAmq2LTzXevRIMYcwDl_2GbE3phyns_9v30RI&e=
> 
> There is no CONTRIBUTE anywhere in that zip archive, AFAICT.

These are binary zip files, not source tarballs.  You should look on
ftp.gnu.org instead.

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