Re: [ELPA] New package: SachaC-news

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I want to propose SachaC-news (or sachac-news.el if you like)
  > package to be included in ELPA.

Are you the developer of the SachaC-news program?
I would guess so, but I'd like to be sure rather than guess.

                                    Its objective is to check for
  > Sacha Chua's news repository periodically, and to show the Org
  > file if there is a new commit with a new post in it.

What other formats does this repository store postings in?  If it has
-- or can generate -- plain text, that should be preferred.
There are users who like Org fornat, but it is not Emacs's preferred
way of showing information.

  > The
  > requirement is the git program to be installed on your system.

Could you say what task it does using git?  Is Sacha's news repository
a git repository?  That might be ok, but where is it?  I hope not
github!  Where is that archive stored?  Can you please tell us its
URL?

We deprecate use of github, so if we are going to have Emacs use a
specific git repo for particular purposes, we should put it on a repo
site that we recommend.

The name SachaC-News suggests that Sacha Chua maintains that archive.
Is that correct?

What formats does it store articles in?  Is Org
format the only one?

Org format is NOT the Emacs standard or preferred format, and not
everyone uses it.  Therefore, if we add a command to display some
useful information, it should not use Org format.

The best format to use is plain text.

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