Re: When will emacs 27.1 be officially released?

[Paul Eggert]

On 6/30/20 9:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> A broken compiler can fail to build a program, which is not a
> catastrophe

It can also quietly build the wrong program, which can be catastrophic.

> how do we make the effort of preparing the manuals and
> NEWS for a release less time-consuming?

A method that works reasonably well in other projects is to update manuals and
NEWS as we go, not just before a release. For starters, I suggest removing the
"+++/---" notation in NEWS, which encourages the bad practice of documentation
not matching code.