From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <371dc591-fc65-61b9-3eda-be09a5e653a8@yandex.ru> <5d6bfce5-62dd-dba9-c741-e7c9ec9d166a@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499813977 22760 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 22:59:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 00:59:32 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 1dV47w-0005dG-Bs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:59:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV481-00059S-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV464-0003mi-AB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV463-00035d-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV45a-0002o8-OC; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dV45a-0001S4-3U; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:06 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:00:53 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:216513 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > 2. The Emacs web site You mean /software/emacs, right? I would call that a directory, not a web site. has a two-line menu, but no “Contributing” item > in that menu. One has to go through “Documentation & Support”, ... These suggestions make sense to me. Nicolas Petton maintains those pages, I believe. If he likes these ideas, would people like to help him implement them? > 3. The ELPA site, , says this near the bottom of > the home page: “To contribute new packages refer to the README”, where > README is a link to another Org-like plain text file that discusses > technicalities without mentioning copyright paperwork. > **Suggestions:** > * Make that README an attractively formatted, well-structured web page > or a collection of pages. > * Explain copyright assignment and alternatives there, too. These are good ideas. Don't the Emacs maintainers maintain that site? > 4. The MELPA site is not your competitor. It is there to fill a need, > both for users and package authors. I will be talking with them when I'm sure of what to say. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.