Re: doc branching

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 4.  For the first half of the development cycle, don't include new 
> features in the manual.  New things get listed in NEWS, but only there. 
>   I favor this solution.  At first glance, it might suggest that new 
> features won't get documented well, but it should have the opposite 
> effect: when I _do_ sit down to move new features from NEWS into the 
> manual, I'll be doing them all at once, so I won't miss anything.  I 
> think we still have features introduced in 2.2 that haven't made it 
> into the manual (I'll be calling for a volunteer to do this soon).

5. Provide a unified documentation and mark features with a version
   number, say,

     This feature appeared in version 2.7.38.

   Ideally, such things belong into the margin, but...



      Werner