Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > ELPA checks for a "News" section or file, that are displayed on the
>   > > websites elpa.{gnu,nongnu}.org.  package.el could do the same, then you
>   > > wouldn't have to parse through a perhaps redundant vcs log and the
>   > > incentive to maintain a news section/file would increase.
>
> Could someone please clarify exactly what is proposed?
>
> Would package.el look for a NEWS section for each of the specific
> packages the user has specified?  Or would it look for NEWS files
> published by a site such as MELPA that covers lots of packages?

What I am proposing (and hope to implement soon) could be a command like
`package-news' that attempts to find a news source in the same manner as
elpa-admin.el does (see `elpaa--get-NEWS' in elpa-admin.el).

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        Philip Kaludercic