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] New package: SachaC-news Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o7fyix8e.wl-cnngimenez@disroot.org> 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="16675"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christian Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 14 03:57:05 2023 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 1r2jbq-00044Q-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:57:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2jb7-00051x-At; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2jb6-00051e-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2jb6-0007o5-01; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:16 -0500 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=acWNfjEuNDosp5uztzP+J9GoQYQJP9o+m6SwFsEPE6g=; b=ogURx82jOJFk Popb25F9kiwx+lXO5g+45gfPtgYbTE5gfUiQL5PSU1FmLAP2mFO73OQhgzarh8sBNBrZEqHxsHkzZ 9H0WEUVy/c/bEa1a9HYomNYG4fy1mBib8yZe+1Kc7O08csCQH9HddTHdeBe/GIntFO+F0ZAvNpwZN FxPR2J005/K+b161NvU2EwyHPOa3xzlMPTQA6zyywm4iUtr68TlcaoVuSnZzHL9PzCIXmkDNuNNH7 Ujy6ZJK7NFyuxuT077A10pOM2bWZObjXHZcZyBH0ZPQuIaLYoroJ1ncrs2DP3g3+Y96GbHJXoAPL4 sEY0XVpqVzuo3DumZsH1/Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1r2jb5-0005l0-2C; Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:56:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87o7fyix8e.wl-cnngimenez@disroot.org> (message from Christian on Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:32:17 -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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312711 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. ]]] > 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. -- 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)