Re: ELPA announcements

Re: ELPA announcements

[Emanuel Berg]

Aaron S. Hawley wrote:

> [Moving to help-gnu-emacs, since
> gnu-emacs-sources isn't meant
> for discussion.]

Do people really still use gnu.emacs.sources?

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Xavier Maillard]

> Do people really still use gnu.emacs.sources?

I do and I guess I am not alone.

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Rolf Ade]

Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:

> Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
>
>> [Moving to help-gnu-emacs, since
>> gnu-emacs-sources isn't meant
>> for discussion.]
>
> Do people really still use gnu.emacs.sources?

I would love, if gnu.emacs.sources would be a more useful information
source (adding a description of the announced packages would no doubt
make ich more valuable) but I read it anyway, since I'm already on
netnews, because of gnu.emacs.help.

Re: ELPA announcements

[Arnaldo Mandel]

The ELPA maintaners could take a hint from the CTAN mailing list.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Rolf Ade <rolf@pointsman.de> wrote:

>
> Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:
>
> > Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> >
> >> [Moving to help-gnu-emacs, since
> >> gnu-emacs-sources isn't meant
> >> for discussion.]
> >
> > Do people really still use gnu.emacs.sources?
>
> I would love, if gnu.emacs.sources would be a more useful information
> source (adding a description of the announced packages would no doubt
> make ich more valuable) but I read it anyway, since I'm already on
> netnews, because of gnu.emacs.help.
>

Re: ELPA announcements

[Emanuel Berg]

Arnaldo Mandel wrote:

> The ELPA maintaners could take a hint from
> the CTAN mailing list.

Normally I'm all for the minority report but my
intuition tells me very, very few people use
GES so any improvements there would be a shot
in the dark, unless it would be a quick fix
which after that would be all automated and
just propagate the data to the newsgroup.

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Aaron S. Hawley]

[Moving to help-gnu-emacs, since gnu-emacs-sources isn't meant for discussion.]

I agree, but technically the package description is on the web site,
but I suppose it could be added.

FWIW, it looks like these e-mails to gnu-emacs-sources originate from
this script:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/admin/update-archive.sh

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> dunno if I am alone in this case but I find this message quite useless
> in this state. Why not adding sort of a package description and/or
> what is new in this version ?
>
> Cheers
> --
> Xavier Maillard

Re: ELPA announcements

[Xavier Maillard]

> From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <aaron.s.hawley@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 09:05:38 -0400
>
> I agree, but technically the package description is on the web site,
> but I suppose it could be added.

I do not want to browse the Internet for such basic information.
Since I spend 99.9% of my time in a GNU Emacs buffer on a non X
environment (linux tty), I tend to limit browsing the Internet at all
;)

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Emanuel Berg]

Xavier Maillard wrote:

> I do not want to browse the Internet for such
> basic information. Since I spend 99.9% of my
> time in a GNU Emacs buffer on a non
> X environment (linux tty), I tend to limit
> browsing the Internet at all ;)

If you by "my time" mean "my computer time",
then we are techo-twins!

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Xavier Maillard wrote:
>
>> I do not want to browse the Internet for such
>> basic information. Since I spend 99.9% of my
>> time in a GNU Emacs buffer on a non
>> X environment (linux tty), I tend to limit
>> browsing the Internet at all ;)
>
> If you by "my time" mean "my computer time",
> then we are techo-twins!

*techno. Ha ha, "techo" :)

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Re: ELPA announcements

[Stefan Monnier]

>> dunno if I am alone in this case but I find this message quite useless
>> in this state. Why not adding sort of a package description and/or
>> what is new in this version ?

Yes, that would be much better.

> I agree, but technically the package description is on the web site,
> but I suppose it could be added.

No doubt.

> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/admin/update-archive.sh

Indeed, tho part of it is done in Elisp from

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/admin/archive-contents.el

Patches welcome,


        Stefan