From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:24:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> <86360apxbk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18307"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, rms@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 12 22:38:40 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1koCb9-0004gl-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:38:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43622 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koCb9-00007d-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:38:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koCNj-0007xu-6D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koCNi-0006fk-6S; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:24:46 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1koCNg-00073b-Mq; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:24:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86360apxbk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:46:07 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:260732 Archived-At: > Maybe. However, it could also be a combination of the fact github was the > first free git hosting environment and is the better known one. Savannah existed long before Github. I think we should encourage people to move away from Github, for both GNU and non-GNU ELPA. Linking to a repository hosted at github isn't the same as encouraging people to use github, but do you think there is anywhere that the GNU project or Emacs is encouraging people to move projects to Github? So we are left with naming and shaming; in list-packages, show the upstream repository along with the license and other info on a package, and show unacceptable ones in red. That could still be a lot of effort to categorize obscure hosts. Naming and shaming people or projects who write free softwrae would be counter productive to our goals -- if there is a package that cannot be hosted in ELPA or non-GNU ELPA it is simply better to just not host it.