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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:286086 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.) > > 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. > > 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? Ignoring the question of who will generate these announcements, I think a regular (weekly, fortnightly, monthly, whatever - monthly probably sufficient) summary type message which contains new packages since the last summary would be better than multiple messages containing details of only one package at a time.