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: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20220329004337.nzeew6dlyqxm7wat@Ergus> 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="20792"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jimmy.aguilar@bsc.es, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 06:31:11 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 1nZmSk-0005Ff-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:31:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmSj-000747-9Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:31:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmP9-0001YI-Mr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50554 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 1nZmP6-0008T9-Vb; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:24 -0400 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=qtZXFtiVGJIH4Cwe7AolKp3QC7u6R84dWQDFdTUA1y0=; b=C5XhoVEIH/nW UhVa/SKCng8yTPcPJqHhpX9QJOsBt0lBl4j0grTMBasIkiPQoCuboMrSx/qivw3pb1Zo+4dn1O5G9 d+NpaLMNha+x9yIX07N4PKHqaghtZrbRu8IzfGFYvkP9YUYsbveZY/d9vDeORre4+wCn9AOL2x/jI pnPgdukR5XExIifiSjNBtJSS/9m+NfR/XWS2AiwtsYSMhtzriP47+bdS3/b2qZVNsu6Qufcr5Hsn9 4gxKXOzsC6CRjEH3Z5ycoHtPFkQNwk+/5YrGNshBU7e8tM5W5YjvBSPMLiuv4DOgDd3dqMc38U8ig sjGxqxbYyjzNaZa4LaaXJg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmP6-000392-Ne; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Tue, 29 Mar 2022 19:05:21 -0400) 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:287626 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. ]]] > 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)