From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaushal Modi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2017 12:57:57 +0000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="f4030438f198be47c10553cde6e7" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499518762 22538 195.159.176.226 (8 Jul 2017 12:59:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 12:59:22 +0000 (UTC) To: Dmitry Gutov , Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 08 14:59:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dTpKM-0005SC-Px for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTpKS-00055o-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 08:59:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTpKL-00055g-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 08:59:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTpKI-0000kY-0N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 08:59:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-lf0-f42.google.com ([209.85.215.42]:33965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dTpKH-0000hx-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 08:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-lf0-f42.google.com with SMTP id t72so37974144lff.1 for ; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 05:59:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=nJN4KiNkPG74R9RXNAb1i1jdA8VjzqrIHu4ZTVGV8lI=; b=JV72KCx6/OAwjQ0Rqh9hpYUlah6cj6xnSvcSPzHQtjm8yYTCEDv+1DoEER/o9DLNJC hziZyhiMGN8EGCBBpwAnNoWDvQdGz3+CFynCxgOty+mZgUH7SSrG1m5pxo4W3+KLHMIi P/Y5q2jNqeyS82SDQxp+4JhkcjG5S42OJwJb2AnkzYzQhFc/yzHTOenmc2uXULgWuX2n nw7jjt3uWjMI4GmXfp13UrccG9556US7zyFveo+egJB3YWsCRfz1De7oMgJuN67uUY8G RkQeP4VSEV4hd6MLjC7iTM9Pb/f86FE0ZUy+Zcj67O0s14NrrdotaHhu4XvXGln4dYHW sJcg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=nJN4KiNkPG74R9RXNAb1i1jdA8VjzqrIHu4ZTVGV8lI=; b=Zd7YVnC6BoBJOvCXGhHZ+FpoQLtJedaLWShQmZ6VLn5HfZXo1BXSqb5nKb9fd8hSRF 2Fo9s9Rl4tVMugpzzfAw8pnqgk33UhPVS96UWBwy2KCo3TEDRtt2JlfewpYWfDGspgwV DEwVWb1EGb8c3tme5GBkUz3dPWzBHGn2DrxQz75RL3buL8xri8zBviWm5OM92BqKxe0c 5OJSjvbzsmgym3kEadUyzCEalnOOdHXtXu04L7T8KnHLl+e5J3zcsSwPlG0b9s/KgDve Jz26kp6yYoVcrtdGoMZDsdckODa9Db6ncbcqKQv7koTpDhB8JzWGk7pN0dlo7KuXnGjD Biow== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw1102RZBWXtJvlFjTSqQcUSEGNMU66UPTulS9fbJlGbleN+5sZIQM vHdwDQgbKWEF/SQBD2vSx7m0DJZ0iA== X-Received: by 10.46.88.3 with SMTP id m3mr1725003ljb.136.1499518688182; Sat, 08 Jul 2017 05:58:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.215.42 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216324 Archived-At: --f4030438f198be47c10553cde6e7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, Jul 8, 2017, 6:29 AM Dmitry Gutov wrote: > > Doesn't sound great: the message would be shown to the users, and there > are much more of them than the package developers. It will be a nuisance. > +1 > I have a feeling that a lot of > > package authors choose MELPA because the barrier to entry is so low, and > they > > may not realize how easy it is to get it into Emacs as well. > > Try asking the MELPA developers about including that paragraph (or a > modified version) somewhere near the instructions for publishing > packages to MELPA. > +1 To add, instead of emailing emacs-devel, we can ask them to email assign@gnu.org directly. The instructions can look something like this: ===== In order to contribute to Emacs (or GNU Elpa, Org-mode, etc), it is required to assign your copyright to FSF. You need to send an email to assign@gnu.org asking that you'd like to assign your copyrights to FSF. Here's a sample of an email that one can send: > Hello, > I visited this site: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html#Copyright-Papers > I would like to contribute to GNU Emacs. > What are the copyright papers that I would need to sign? ===== -- Kaushal Modi --f4030438f198be47c10553cde6e7 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, Jul 8, 2017, 6:29 AM Dm= itry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>= wrote:

Doesn't sound great: the message would be shown to the users, and there=
are much more of them than the package developers. It will be a nuisance.

+1

> I have a feeling that = a lot of
> package authors choose MELPA because the barrier to entry is so low, a= nd they
> may not realize how easy it is to get it into Emacs as well.

Try asking the MELPA developers about including that paragraph (or a
modified version) somewhere near the instructions for publishing
packages to MELPA.

+1
<= br>
To add, instead of emailing emacs-devel, we can ask them to e= mail assign@gnu.org directly.=C2=A0

The instructions can look something like this:

=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
In order to contribute to Em= acs (or GNU Elpa, Org-mode, etc), it is required to assign your copyright t= o FSF.=C2=A0

You need to send an email to assign@gnu.org asking that you'd like to= assign your copyrights to FSF.

Here's a sample of an email that= one can send:

> Hello,

> I visited this site: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.h= tml#Copyright-Papers

> I would like to contribute to GNU Emac= s.

> What are the copyright papers that I would need to sign?
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

--

Kaushal Modi

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