From: Glenn Morris Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:55:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ; * CONTRIBUTE, admin/make-tarball.txt: Doc tweaks re 'emacs-announce'. X-Git-Tag: emacs-26.0.91~390 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6f43d29d29605b710e51ff7f1487063c2f5b0b5a;p=emacs.git ; * CONTRIBUTE, admin/make-tarball.txt: Doc tweaks re 'emacs-announce'. --- diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index c7f3330ab01..c324375bb07 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ admin/notes/git-workflow. ** Getting involved with development Discussion about Emacs development takes place on emacs-devel@gnu.org. -You can subscribe to the emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list, paying -attention to postings with subject lines containing "emacs-announce", -as these discuss important events like feature freezes. See -https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel for mailing list +You can subscribe to the emacs-devel@gnu.org mailing list. +If you want to get only the important mails (for things like +feature freezes), choose to receive only the 'emacs-announce' topic +(although so far this feature has not been well or consistently used). +See https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel for mailing list instructions and archives. You can develop and commit changes in your own copy of the repository, and discuss proposed changes on the mailing list. Frequent contributors to Emacs can request write access diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt index 466ee09cd7d..6d6312c9b1b 100644 --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt @@ -177,6 +177,11 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors): See the info-gnu-emacs mailing list archives for the form of past announcements. The first pretest announcement, and the release announcement, should have more detail. + Use the emacs-devel topic 'emacs-announce'. The best way to do + this is to add a header "Keywords: emacs-announce" to your mail. + (You can also put it in the Subject, but this is not as good + because replies that invariably are not announcements also get + sent out as if they were.) 12. After a release, update the Emacs pages as below.