Re: 21.2 release. Was: dabbrev can hang in presence of fields

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Glenn Morris wrote:

> > No, the official one was posted earlier today (by Richard) to 
> > info-gnu-emacs.
> 
> Is this available anywhere on Usenet [...]?

It should be.

> "info-gnu-emacs is also gated one way to USENET's newsgroup comp.emacs
> (once known as net.emacs). This one-way gating is done for users whose
> sites get comp.emacs, but not gnu.emacs.announce."
> 
> This doesn't seem to be the case: gnu.emacs.announce seems dead (not
> archived on Google, listed but contains no articles on my newsserver), and
> I don't see the announcement on comp.emacs (unless it's very tardy).

Yes, I'm trying to fix those problems.

> On this topic, then IMO it would be nice if there was a simple statement
> somewhere on the http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ page that said:
> 
> "The latest version of Emacs is: XX.XX (released yyyy/mm/dd)"

Your suggestions are well taken, but unfortunately we lack volunteers to 
do all of that.  Maintenance of a Web page for a major package is a 
serious business, which, if done well, would probably consume free time 
of at least one person who does only that.  I have a very limited time to 
work on Emacs, and this weekend it was all taken by what I needed to do to 
prepare a release in a reasonably clean and tested manner.

So I agree it would be nice to have what you suggested, but someone will 
have to volunteer to make that happen.