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: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:37:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87wni47bph.fsf@gmail.com> 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="16465"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 05:39:20 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 1nINiJ-00045M-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 05:39:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60146 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nINiI-0001AK-K4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50114) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nINgd-00081n-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:37:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=44454 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 1nINgc-0005Ab-Pq; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:37:34 -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=7svIo6R+3PVhuzdOmP1Wwzx1ssboB49t7ctWeDGClrM=; b=mL3C4mLjqJi+ RaWg6jS7qtHXlcimDSoctdZoZdSoMMsvvl+KlZ6ShKkARY/qZIturtiiUJIUL3CwNmf10bvFC3sYF 6hVbNA8lxHbmqXhGe5oziF6nZDHm+9qxPnOXORaiDUuA0V00yd5W+r72Nt1+L0bE64zXcTrkrh8aG JFGsWJ/QQ4yGczovXesKJS8M6iWh4zsgf4xmFt+RzN6JglmZwG9QvGakVOHa5YJoBtRCcVS/XC+Cc b4+qS6BXCF2OHxmmXCjgHC40XE0IwmcTYlu9LqMqxQmaQKArYoDZYENLwp4OqAWj5ZQVcGngMRXV3 Ai+/PgrCvZx1OnTqbvuf8Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nINgc-0001rG-5h; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:37:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87wni47bph.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Wed, 09 Feb 2022 18:09:46 +1100) 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:286155 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 > 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. I have to disagree. Announcing each separately would help/encourage people to look at each one and think about it for a few seconds -- "Would this be useful for me?" By contrast, announcing several packages together would help/encourage people not to look at all of them. Many would only notice the first one. The only benefit would be to reduce the total number of messages. How much is that benefit? With some data, we could see. Can anyone find the last 10 packages added to GNU ELPA, and the date each one was added? -- 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)