Re: ELPA commit freeze

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 23.08.2013 07:12, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Currently your README.md contains nothing but a pointer to the webpage.
> Clearly, it's not that important to include every one of those elements.

When you see a pointer, you just follow it. Having a piece of text there 
would be different.

> So nothing prevents you from keeping the same pointer and simply add to
> it the Commentary text (which you then remove from Commentary).
> Tadaa! no more duplication than what we already have.

I wouldn't put just the Usage section in README.md together with a link 
to the proper homepage which contains a similar Usage section, in any 
situation, other than to appease the ELPA readme.txt generator.

> PS: I'll remove "README.md" from the list of files to consider,

Thank you.

 > but I really think it's fundamentally wrong, so it's just
> a temporary measure.

Like I mentioned, my reasons are mostly social, so I wouldn't mind 
having a change, provided all parties agree.

But doesn't putting different information in different places make sense 
to you, at least on some level?

For example, http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/company.html includes the 
contents of NEWS.md, which looks great.
It could similarly combine README.md and Commentary.