From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:33:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351744426 19262 80.91.229.3 (1 Nov 2012 04:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 04:33:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 01 05:33:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TTmTY-0000dx-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:33:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38219 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTmTP-0007d2-BW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTmTM-0007cs-EI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTmTL-0003je-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:17583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TTmTK-0003jT-Ra for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:33:39 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu0/O+LET/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYoCws0EhQYDYhABboJjSaDHgOjM4FYgwU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="203276200" Original-Received: from 206-248-177-19.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.177.19]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Nov 2012 00:33:38 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 886B658C9F; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:33:37 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:30:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154600 Archived-At: > So I think we should setup some GNU ELPA web-site that lists the > packages and where each package gets a web page which would be the > canonical web page for that package (so people can link to it from, say, > emacswiki) describing it (its README or "Commentary:") plus a link to > its repository. Well, I just went ahead and took a first crack at it. I'm an HTML ignoramus, so the result is clearly unimpressive. If you care to make it better, the code that builds those files is in elpa/admin/archive-contents.el, so feel free to submit patches for it. As discussed in this thread, if we want this to work, we need some way to get a sexier description than the plain-text readme.txt. I.e. we need to replace the READMEs with more structured files which can be easily turned into acceptable HTML (no need to be fancy, here) as well as easy to render acceptably in Emacs (extra bonus points if that same format can end up being used as a replacement for Info ;-). Stefan