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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 18:59:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27ezj3cz3.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)

Richard recently suggested the idea of adding a notification message -- to
remain completely unobtrusive -- that would indicate to users installing
packages from MELPA something along the lines of:

    "We urge the developers of Emacs packages that are in MELPA, or
    that they hope to put in MELPA, to write to emacs-devel@gnu.org
    about signing the legal papers to enable us to include them in
    Emacs or in the Emacs package library."

This message could remain on the screen for a few seconds, or until the user
types something else. The aim is to make people aware of the importance of
this in a gentle way that won't interfere with what they are doing.

First what do people think of such an idea, and second, does it sound like
something anyone would be interesting in adding to package.el, so more people
can learn about how to contribute to ELPA? I have a feeling that a lot of
package authors choose MELPA because the barrier to entry is so low, and they
may not realize how easy it is to get it into Emacs as well.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



             reply	other threads:[~2017-07-08  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-08  1:59 John Wiegley [this message]
2017-07-08 10:29 ` Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-08 12:57   ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-08 17:03   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-08 22:12     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-08 22:50       ` Tim Cross
2017-07-10  9:29         ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 15:07         ` Jean Louis
2017-07-10  9:29       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-09  0:39     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-10  2:07       ` Chad Brown
2017-07-10  9:27       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 13:02         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-11 11:45           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-11 15:00             ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-11 18:01               ` John Wiegley
2017-07-11 18:37                 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-11 22:57               ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12  7:56                 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-12 16:12                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12 17:49                     ` emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads] Glenn Morris
2017-07-13 12:23                       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15  5:55                         ` John Wiegley
2017-07-12 16:35                   ` Glenn Morris
2017-07-11 22:57               ` Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Richard Stallman
2017-07-12 23:12                 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-13 12:26                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 19:12                     ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-15  1:33                       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17  8:16                         ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-24  2:54                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 15:36         ` Ken Manheimer
2017-07-10 23:32           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-08 14:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-09  3:04   ` Yann Hodique
2017-07-10  9:29     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 15:41       ` Ken Manheimer
2017-07-10 23:30         ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 16:48       ` Yann Hodique
2017-07-10 20:43   ` Joost Kremers
2017-07-11 22:57     ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12  0:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 16:13         ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-11 16:04   ` Improving GNU ELPA (was: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads) Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12  1:26     ` Improving GNU ELPA Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-12  2:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 23:17         ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-13  2:03           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-13  2:07             ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-13 19:18         ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-07-13 22:07           ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-16 16:04     ` Improving GNU ELPA (was: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads) Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-16 17:11       ` Improving GNU ELPA Stefan Monnier
2017-07-16 17:28         ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-17 16:46           ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-17 18:26           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-17 21:04             ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 21:21               ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 10:08                 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 13:35                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 16:17                     ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 14:18                   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-18 16:23                     ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-19  3:31                       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 22:54                         ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 14:16                 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-18 14:39                   ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 16:20                     ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 17:26                       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 22:59                         ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-24  2:54                           ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-24 12:26                             ` Phillip Lord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-20 12:29 Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 12:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-20 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 13:49   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 14:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 14:48       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 14:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24  2:52       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-20 14:01   ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 14:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 14:36       ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 14:47         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 15:09           ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 15:08         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 15:58           ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 17:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-21 11:21               ` Nikolaus Rath
2017-07-20 14:27     ` John Wiegley
2017-07-20 15:19 ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-20 16:19 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-07-24  2:52   ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-24  3:05     ` Radon Rosborough
2017-07-25  1:32       ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-20 21:20 ` Richard Stallman

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