Re: [GNU ELPA] Denote version 1.0.0

[Stefan Monnier]

Protesilaos Stavrou [2022-09-30 12:11:16] wrote:

>> From: ELPA update <do.not.reply@elpa.gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 05:03:31 -0400
>
>> Version 1.0.0 of package Denote has just been released in GNU ELPA.
>> You can now find it in M-x package-list RET.
>>
>> Denote describes itself as:
>>   Simple notes with an efficient file-naming scheme
>>
>> More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/denote.html
>>
>> Recent NEWS:
>
>> [... 89 lines elided]
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> The quoted part is an automated message that GNU ELPA produces.  I want
> to check how it does it and whether we can have some control over it

See the `elpa-admin.el` code in the `elpa-admin` branch of `elpa.git`:

    
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/elpa-admin.el?h=elpa-admin

the relevant piece of code is in the function `elpaa--release-email`.

> (e.g. its length).

This part is more specifically in `elpaa--get-NEWS` where we truncate to
about 4kB.


        Stefan