Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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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?

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