Re: draft release announcement

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Feb-2011, CdeMills wrote:

| In the News file, there should be items about 
| 1) the enhanced history mechanism. In the past, I lost quite a few times the
| history while debugging scripts and filling the history with 'return'

OK, how about a patch with suggested text for that?

| 2)  the switch to gnulib for all the glue functions in C. It was a good job
| of yours to remove all those code snippets dating from more than ten years
| ago

Although we have a few items about internals in the news file, I think
we should generally keep it focused on user-visible changes.

| In the announcement, maybe a few statistics about the number of patches
| incorporated between 3.2.4 and 3.4 ?

Maybe, but I'm not sure that's of interest to the general user.

jwe