From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Misleading messages about new versions Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:11:06 +0300 Message-ID: References: <877d9xtl2e.fsf@turtle-trading.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="713"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Benjamin Riefenstahl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 20:52:34 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 1nJhOj-000AY6-UJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:52:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJhOi-0000rh-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJgo8-0000YZ-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:14:46 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:53035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJgo3-0000fM-1U; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 14:14:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.75.189.127]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D58.00000000620AAA1B.00001246; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:14:35 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Benjamin Riefenstahl , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877d9xtl2e.fsf@turtle-trading.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01, T_SPF_HELO_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:286294 Archived-At: * Benjamin Riefenstahl [2022-02-14 20:28]: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Stallman writes: > > For a new package, it could say, > > > > We're glad to announce adding the new package Whatsit to XXGNU ELPA. > > The initial version number is X.Y. Here's what Whatsit does: > > Careful, a machine (program) that pretends to have feelings is a spam > generator in my book. I would not subscribe to such a bot on principle. Somebody was behind the origination of communication. An original author did write "We're glad to announce...". And Emacs users and developers are really glad to expand software for Emacs. Aren't we? When reading a book, one reads what original author intended. Even though author could be dead, or not existent. Authors of books will often put many of their personal feelings and observations of other people's feelings into written stories. That some time passed after receiving the communication is clear. A book written by author could be real or imaginary. Both types could be very moving. Apart from that, intention of notices is to tell which package is there as new and that it shall be announced. Package reviews are welcome. Everybody is free to write reviews and send us announcements. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/