Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com>]

> On Jan 25, 2024, at 7:59 PM, Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to add a new package to ELPA, activities.el.  It's hosted at:
> 
>  https://github.com/alphapapa/activities.el
> 
> Here's the description; please see the readme/manual for more details.


I've given activities a try and am very impressed.  None of desktop.el/framesets/burly/bufler ever stuck for me.  And project.el is great but many activities span projects.  Activities is literally already a one key interface for me: <f10> to jump to an activity from anywhere, C-<f10> to revert the current one (OK two keys).  I think people are going to love it, and I can very much imagine it migrating to core someday.  Strong support for including in ELPA.  

PS: I personally feel that by the time a package author presents a well-written and fairly complete package for inclusion into ELPA, it is too late to make the argument that they should have instead contributed that functionality to a built-in package.  If you can convince them earlier in the process, of course, but it certainly adds to the outside impression that ELPA is a gauntlet that must be run, which I think all agree is not desired.