From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jambunathan K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:52:43 +0530 Message-ID: <87r4ol6ewc.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351225244 25280 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2012 04:20:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 04:20:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 26 06:20:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TRbPg-0007Dm-Fa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRbPY-0004uK-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRbPV-0004ql-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRbPU-0004kg-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:20:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-da0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:64824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRbPT-0004kZ-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-da0-f41.google.com with SMTP id i14so1155056dad.0 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:20:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=2t333ILns3pvxmLUB83PsnWIOwEJrNpssakBB7aRw8k=; b=j8IRRPM8VwSfvA2ekBsGkRBLKn6slFKB7Za8SAEuGaxzEYkLL0bPrSB5LSEqQaDEks lKxbk9MrMh8L96n8bSIZy62QLkkC5ZgOrC+ZXmuJhCK2RZjQoCeQoTU9cl3zWFS6zh2x KfSQxkwcyAnuj85pK0YMcZuC6yaGyqNjEj/8WEOkhrJYun0P1a59k2o+/Te7xLv16cA4 sUsn3PIUFTKjFaCubAuohGdaiLiAGpYounoBtBcgeCcrlQ0Uk3OLPVcPcz4NNB42a8Kv PpXf6nuudrGyR/ZK0Dm6OxK4IodQSI/b4Ey1Pr4JZK1btktva83RBzXjvaeyUnLGg8Kn HIFg== Original-Received: by 10.66.75.232 with SMTP id f8mr1532165paw.23.1351225238790; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:20:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from debian-6.05 ([115.241.65.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b6sm317577pav.33.2012.10.25.21.20.35 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:20:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:30:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154520 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > When looking for an Elisp package or feature, most people reach for > their browser before reaching for M-x list-packages. > But packages distributed via GNU ELPA won't show up because they're not > visible to search engines. One can always do a targeted search at elpa.gnu.org. Most importantly, the http://elpa.gnu.org pages are indexed by search engines. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=auctex+%20site%3Aelpa.gnu.org May be the archive-contents file in the packages directory can contain some `magic' string say `GNU ELPA' that one can use for search queries. This will be particularly useful as packages grow and people start relying more and more on browsers for locating packages. A targetted mailing list (or discussion group) for GNU ELPA packages is also a good idea for targetted search or to keeping abreast of latest ANNouncements in package world. > So I think we should setup some GNU ELPA web-site that lists the > packages and where each package gets a web page which would be the > canonical web page for that package (so people can link to it from, say, > emacswiki) describing it (its README or "Commentary:") plus a link to > its repository. One can standardize around TeX or Org markup for package readme files. Org can be exported to ascii, as well as HTML. It essentially means that one gets a readme file (`?' in `*Packages*' buffer) or it's own web page. > Stefan > > --