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: [GNU ELPA] Denote version 1.0.0 Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:02:32 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85czbd44kc.fsf@elpa.gnu.org> <87mtah447f.fsf@protesilaos.com> <87sfk66649.fsf@protesilaos.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="19059"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Protesilaos Stavrou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 10 01:04:11 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 1ohfL8-0004lr-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2022 01:04:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41640 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohfL7-0003yZ-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohfJa-0003Dt-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:02:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohfJZ-0005DD-LC; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:02:33 -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=flA/k6rzMEjhq3jdiqKR1UnvFNgSTDWllQvSnIaRdXI=; b=b0UnZyonn0N6 k8TELtAVuXUOMXQXtt/qku8DqeSAukAl0Hbs+APpL5ILUKsJZ4p45u5j8ksgilwUWHht0iJBgSeLv fC3YJFGZfnFCqDyChSfAodJBqcXoRuCGHl+fb0/DWT4Ff5f0ze5CJK+cbh6/zw0uOLjsk9JGCwOgJ AAsRB/JDNILvG7OKgiUXLrYAD/3I3BOqf64D3ww5ke/Baps0jnftG5NXdgN7WcbN82kxTGNGX+Sxq HV+wnZJo8LFRODvP0IZD0IAt5Nc0QFWVD4jKj7NhygxRkQAKDSjFiaSzfTpnAOOTCFusruQ9AG/b7 l8H3hjxLz7Lujr3LIcpuFg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ohfJY-0003j8-1o; Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:02:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sfk66649.fsf@protesilaos.com> (message from Protesilaos Stavrou on Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:23:50 +0300) 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:297296 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. ]]] > * Any convention of this sort should not nudge us towards favouring > generic names like "emacs-notes", "notes-mode", "notes.el", etc. > There are lots of packages out there that have similar functionality. > If we all go for the generic name, we will keep clashing with each > other. I agree. A very helpful name might consist of a general word (such as "notes") and a more specific word to distinguish this package from others in the same general area of activity. -- 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)