From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drop the Copyright Assignment requirement for Emacs Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 20:13:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9l29yz3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83zhaih0oz.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnbegsvm.fsf@gnu.org> <547c9116-c1c3-8563-4aee-c62aa2302861@yandex.ru> <838shybfdo.fsf@gnu.org> <3f79ff6e-2471-fa6d-08ff-682afd504eca@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="130346"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 19:14:13 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYC0K-000XnM-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 19:14:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35062 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYC0J-0008IY-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 13:14:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYBzb-0006r8-BT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 13:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41667) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYBzb-0001sV-1S; Mon, 11 May 2020 13:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4367 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYBzY-0005U5-GS; Mon, 11 May 2020 13:13:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3f79ff6e-2471-fa6d-08ff-682afd504eca@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 11 May 2020 19:56:59 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249835 Archived-At: > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Dmitry Gutov > Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 19:56:59 +0300 > > On 11.05.2020 19:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Why do we need to bless any package? I can understand why the package > > developers would want to be blessed, but why do_we_ want to do so? > > Because we can tell the users on our home page to: > > 1. Install Emacs, > > 2. If you [do IDE stuff with it], install packages b and c. > > 3. Be productive. > > or > > 4. [do some creative stuff with it] > > 5. Install packages d and e. > > 6. Be happy and create. We can say the same without having the packages in ELPA, we just need to tell them in addition to set up package.el for MELPA.