From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let's announce each new package added to GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:01:25 +0000 Message-ID: <87ee4c4dne.fsf@posteo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 12:07:05 2022 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 1nHkoT-0004WP-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:07:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52426 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHkoS-0003qZ-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHir0-0002ZQ-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:36883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nHiqx-000490-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:01:34 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C557240029 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:01:27 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1644397288; bh=/+YfRhEByj7n98TGz/KfeWoPFWviW9HPGCJYpPK2nPo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:From; b=pjjoQtOT0pLh+WJEReJCXGgFPQsVRF1GVRz+sgrYmaFN1aa+JksPpDTW6pX2oXt+c YDPlL0ve/yaX6QOfKCGhEU/Md6X4SNuc8kKTba3AukTX0OpZTk3NH+pXrZmYE9LJMW FM+h6W5Qz00GORDPLdJ80/AWM6ePLCrv7l4llLj50jvesuK6vW9kUhXqJBnufznDB4 BpImmU1M29dOGuZ+PiFXrDQK7JAj8z1/afxrku8udfKol9NnCSlwhnYUXetdxM7r3B YUL617pHdYH3oHtcy+HjlXScyjciYJZS4y9r0LLOVi1/IClbzwGcDd+wsAQtDyxzxB 6rritxBJrtGHA== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4Jtv4l01gXz9rxF; Wed, 9 Feb 2022 10:01:26 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:04:10 -0500") Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; prefer-encrypt=nopreference; keydata= mDMEYHHqUhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAp3GdmYJ6tm5McweY6dEvIYIiry+Oz9rU4MH6NHWK0Ee0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiQBBMWCAA4FiEEDM2H44ZoPt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwMFCwkIBwIGFQoJ CAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQtVrAHPRh1FyTkgEAjlbGPxFchvMbxzAES3r8QLuZgCxeAXunM9gh io0ePtUBALVhh9G6wIoZhl0gUCbQpoN/UJHI08Gm1qDob5zDxnIHuDgEYHHqUhIKKwYBBAGXVQEF AQEHQNcRB+MUimTMqoxxMMUERpOR+Q4b1KgncDZkhrO2ql1tAwEIB4h4BBgWCAAgFiEEDM2H44Zo Pt9Ms0eHtVrAHPRh1FwFAmBx6lICGwwACgkQtVrAHPRh1Fw1JwD/Qo7kvtib8jy7puyWrSv0MeTS g8qIxgoRWJE/KKdkCLEA/jb9b9/g8nnX+UcwHf/4VfKsjExlnND3FrBviXUW6NcB Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.65; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout01.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286089 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I think it would be wise and helpful to announce each new package > added for the first time to GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA. These > hand-written announcements would contain a brief paragraph that > summarizes what the package does. (This text could be stored in the > repo so people could look at it later.) Are you thinking about an automated system, or should the people that add the package to elpa.git/nongnu.git send a separate message? > The natural place to post these announcements is on info-gnu-emacs. > However, if the rate of new packages in NonGNU ELPA would lead to too > many messages for that list, we could announce the NonGNU ELPA > packages on some other list. Does it have to be immediate, or could a weekly-summary (something like "new packages and releases") also do it? > Each package would be announced this way only once. Each _new > version_ of a package is announced automatically on gnu-emacs-sources; > for new versions, that is enough. But those automatic announcements > don't say whether the package is new. > > What do people think? I don't know if it is necessary, whenever a package gets added to an archive, it is marked as "new" in the package list. Given a decent commentary section (something I often mention to package maintainers), you also get a good overview of what the package does. -- Philip Kaludercic