Re: HTML-formatted NEWS for Emacs 29

Peter Oliver <[email protected]> writes:


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> From 41b5a6ded44195f354beec9f87fecf8810c621bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Peter Oliver <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:27:52 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 3/4] * admin/make-tarball.txt: Publish HTML formatted NEWS.
>
> ---
>  admin/make-tarball.txt | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
> index d17adfbf79c..560d152ffd2 100644
> --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
> +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
> @@ -349,14 +349,18 @@ General steps (for each step, check for possible errors):
>      (Use e.g. `M-x mml-secure-message-sign' in `message-mode' to sign
>      an email.)
>  
> -14. After a release, update the Emacs pages as described below.
> +14. Generate an HTML-formatted version of the NEWS file:
> +
> +      ./src/emacs --batch --load=admin/admin.el --funcall=make-news-html-file
> +
> +15. After a release, update the Emacs pages as described below.
>      Note: it is important to add the new NEWS file _before_ bumping the
>      Emacs version on the release branch, because doing the latter will
>      add (empty) sections to NEWS for the next version, and you don't
>      want those sections in the NEWS file reachable from the GNU Emacs
>      page.
>  
> -15. After a release, bump the Emacs version on the release branch.
> +16. After a release, bump the Emacs version on the release branch.
>      There is no need to bump the version after a pretest; the version
>      is bumped before the next pretest or release instead.
>  
> @@ -376,6 +380,7 @@ The pages and files to update are:
>     update is needed)
>   . history.html (add a line for the new release)
>   . add the new NEWS file as news/NEWS.xx.y
> + . add the new NEWS.xx.html file as news/NEWS.xx.html

So we need to add the files to emacs.git?  Shouldn't there be an
instruction to add the file to the Emacs website?

>   . copy new etc/MACHINES to MACHINES and CONTRIBUTE to CONTRIBUTE
>   . possibly/rarely also download.html (see below)
>  
> -- 
> 2.55.0

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