From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Cc: jimmy.aguilar@bsc.es, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1nZmP6-000392-Ne@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnXXohf-oVvM1TUwBqJEkQeOJTWJ00+QcC1cUz7-bCmqnsaHw@mail.gmail.com> (message from John Yates on Tue, 29 Mar 2022 19:05:21 -0400)
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> But if there is no mechanism to, at least, identify decay then,
> over time, the ratio of high quality packages to those of lesser
> quality drops.
I can envision features we could add to get more feedback about ELPA
packages. If a package has not been changed in N years, we could
add some simple code to display a message to each user who installs
the package.
For instance, it could suggest sending us an emeil saying whether you
find the package useful, and whether it works correctly.
--
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)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-31 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-29 0:43 [ELPA] Package cleanup Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-03-29 16:24 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-29 21:41 ` John Yates
2022-03-29 22:04 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-29 23:05 ` John Yates
2022-03-30 1:43 ` Drew Adams
2022-03-31 4:27 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-03-30 7:31 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-30 8:35 ` [External] : " Stefan Monnier
2022-03-30 14:09 ` Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-03-30 21:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-03-31 4:27 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2022-03-30 3:44 ` Po Lu
2022-03-30 7:56 ` João Távora
2022-03-30 4:56 ` Jimmy Aguilar Mena
2022-04-01 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
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