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: [ELPA] Package cleanup Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:07:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20220329004337.nzeew6dlyqxm7wat@Ergus> <20220330045602.4j55nyt52lyib3c6@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="37138"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jimmy Aguilar Mena Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 06:09:10 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 1na8az-0009Vj-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:09:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1na8ay-00037L-Ik for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1na8ZI-0001sp-Tw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:07:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=46116 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 1na8ZI-0004Pe-2X; Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:07:24 -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=s0bTCr3TS++6vR7mvZ5UDAifajUWUvr4suhPC/plHtk=; b=OWhuP23Ub3kQ 0lt0ns8DyvGXMLgf6mmI/6M94Vwga8QOW9iOj3XV/IW+S8zOVhjLuN8vVcILq/KctSmeuUzUeUG4/ S3LXKi20G998hqu+9kIq7drgX84hqHRDk6eA9vjQSG9433yzIWPt27SfvLhy4RlosgYun541ySWN1 7Y09dWw5e7LjirW7lO7Lso7V6t1LIdLKPwGWiPO2n0NxsqIkUWiWgeZkW4CeWNpWe48j/K7S2xggi Wi/oGyuYlZqGxLRdXHgwFYsaoWo8nAO7svrPSgBrq3YfimzIbvrJhWQHc0B/AKObAJCtSMU2h2xPL 2ZDREVF8pdLm4f6Ffbk4jA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1na8Z9-000366-4R; Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:07:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20220330045602.4j55nyt52lyib3c6@Ergus> (message from Jimmy Aguilar Mena on Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:56:02 +0200) 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:287655 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. ]]] > >There are many questions we'd want to check > >to decide what to do with each package. > > > But if they don't receive any update for years, That's the case that was brought up. and the bug reports > accumulate That wasn't mentioned before. It makes a difference. Depending on what those bugs do, we might delete (or obsolete) the package -- but not automatically and rigidly. Another option would be to ask users to tell us what they think of the package. (on github too) How does that make a difference? We don't use Github. We won't ask anyone to make an account there, since doing so requires running their nonfree software. Supposing we find someone to fix bugs in the package, we can't fix them on github. We could change the GNU ELPA version to direct people clearly to report bugs to us, so we can fix them. -- 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)