From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let's announce each new package added to GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:56:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ee4c4dne.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40707"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 04:57:54 2022 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 1nI0ae-000AJT-Vp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 04:57:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nI0ad-00019O-EO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:57:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nI0Zm-0000SP-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=47144 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nI0Zl-0002wX-TN; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:56:57 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=lRWne5Pj3Kg8SwxgH0/akiuKkQkwlqph3gfk3qPqlPk=; b=NAdyr4mEYSjy 7YX3Bz3bRsu/9jmjN+AyB4tKCYdUndoaGkhUKRHkvZJsVKiALwzvqDApdtebnLWv0xFbkd2LaM7Y/ azq2lzHh1bePPmeT2D4cGyyCzkSRIvKG8DxTa7OOKblD1RsRf9nVUf+f5b1LuF4ivHoU6WGBgxB86 caTvAC3UdxywMMXq9f9a42HhRGEU4xs+w66FEGZh40wxiQUlPxHFZRGNrpURbgXUS/+68rNQPMBS2 MGVVrdsRe0QQIEEp/nxEKFjDadmihj8S3i/kjLFkeOfHOnsIP3JDVTfUfo4yeNLjIeXd+pxYW89sh MyjQbRe4XxRcUNXe/zHdkQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nI0Zl-0008S7-BA; Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:56:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ee4c4dne.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:01:25 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:286120 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. ]]] > > 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.) > Are you thinking about an automated system, or should the people that > add the package to elpa.git/nongnu.git send a separate message? I was presuming it would have to be manual, but if there is a way to make it automatic, that would be more convenient. > Does it have to be immediate, or could a weekly-summary (something like > "new packages and releases") also do it? I think it will be more effective if each package gets a separate message. If you put two or three packages in one message, people's eyes may glaze over. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)