Re: doc branching

[Cameron Horsburgh]

Graham Percival wrote:

> 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).

> 
> Thoughts?
> - Graham

I'll have a bit of time over the next week--I'm willing to have a look
through the last few NEWS files (2.0 on?) and compare them with the
current (2.9 ?) manual. Any objections?

Cam