Re: [ELPA] New package: dape

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 08:46:35 -0500
>> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>, John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>,
>>  Krister Schuchardt <krister.schuchardt@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>>  philipk@posteo.net
>> From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
>> 
>> While friendly, gentle suggestions are ok, the pressure being put on 
>> authors in this process is unbecoming, to say the least.
>
> Please stop the insinuations.  There's no pressure.  We are asking
> authors to consider changing the names, that's all; if they don't
> agree, the issue is dropped on the floor.  It is, after all, our
> prerogative and even our job, out of the wish to serve our users
> better, to try to have packages with reasonablt self-explanatory names
> where possible.  You don't have to like it, but at least please
> respect our views on that and our perspective.  Your flat rejection of
> it is unbecoming, to say the least.

In addition to this, there have on multiple occasions been authors who
have been open and appreciative of names being suggested here on the
mailing list, especially if they don't have a strong opinion wrt the
name to begin with.  It seems unjustified to claim that mentioning the
topic will necessarily scare people away.  (I didn't want to bring this
up initially, but one of the reasons I mentioned changing the name is
due to the small edit distance between "dape" and "r*pe", that I can
imagine would make other people more uncomfortable).