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Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:42:24PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I'll buy the second thesis, but I doubt the first. Rather than seeing
> Joel's mail as a post-facto justification for Mark's commit, why not
> read it as a suggestion that we discuss and change the policy?
> Looking at the archives, I think it reads just as well both ways.
...
> I agree that NEWS is user-level documentation, and should be held to a
> higher standard of general comprehensibility than, say, ChangeLog
> entries. I think there's a lot to be said for having a single person
> in charge of editing the entries and keeping them grouped in some
> logical fashion; when everyone just tacks stuff on at the front, it
> gets kind of incoherent. Given that Eli has been consistently
> responsive to doc changes for years, I don't think this will be much
> of a bottleneck.
So how about this:
- For the moment, we change MAINTAINERS to mark NEWS as part of the
documentation. Which seems plausible.
- In the longer term, we discuss the overall policy.
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