From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unsupported packages area in the Emacs repo Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:38:06 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87eimdlav5.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <878wclke6j.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87k4w5lbyb.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <7b501d5c0912291321k15d51d86jed81998de0bdcdab@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262123143 6001 80.91.229.12 (29 Dec 2009 21:45:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:45:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 22:45:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NPjrI-00040w-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjrI-0006rm-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:44:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjqV-0006YQ-CZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjqQ-0006WH-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:43:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44661 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NPjqQ-0006WC-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44058) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPjqP-0003lm-Is for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NPjoL-00023R-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:41:01 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:41:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c5ANJw6nw/7ZnyqHDYQN/7i92Ks= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:118990 Archived-At: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:21:14 +0100 Deniz Dogan wrote: DD> 2009/12/29 Ted Zlatanov : >> Yes, that makes a lot of sense.  Promotion could work like Apache's >> incubation process or like Haskell's hackage system, or in another way >> more suited to Emacs' model. DD> What do you mean by "like Haskell's hackage system"? As far as I know, DD> anyone can upload their package to Hackage and it will be made DD> available to everyone. I don't think there are any DD> "supported/unsupported" categories as such. Apache is one way to promote packages, with a tightly controlled incubation and voting process. Hackage is another way, with everything "unsupported"--an unlikely model but I was trying to show extremes in the way packages are promoted. Sorry I wasn't clear. Ted