From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Roehler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta,gmane.emacs.sxemacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-Lisp Bill-Board Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:00:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4988783D.7050306@online.de> References: <49881BE3.6090907@online.de> <87bptjwqtb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233680383 24422 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2009 16:59:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: XEmacs-Beta@xemacs.org, sxemacs-devel@sxemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 03 18:00:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUOdr-0001Ey-C1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:00:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34341 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOcY-00061y-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOcS-00060J-Up for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOcR-0005zW-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40205 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOcR-0005zT-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:59:27 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:51534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUOcL-0000yH-Ic; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (p54BE9DCF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.190.157.207]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1LUOc42wXf-0002dV; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:59:17 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) In-Reply-To: <87bptjwqtb.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Tcs7KVOdSIJqUZjnzVc3n2ztUKJc6svApkVh UT0/OtV7LBbAI1asRcpfzOV3hcP+5ixqQVxxWQpcNnW/RM8C1i mQ15wPe6v80vXHh5tHSr3w6CxAa5wB6CImEsp8IzA4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108690 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:29341 gmane.emacs.sxemacs.devel:2514 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Andreas Roehler writes: >> I've thought at a kind of bill-board, where everyone >> interested might pin his code onto it. > > http://emacswiki.org > >> An account on launchpad seems suitable for that task. > > launchpad is not free software, correct? [1][2] > > That seems unacceptable. > > Thanks, > > -Miles > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchpad_(website)#Criticism > [2] https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+faq/195 > Thanks back for the info. They promised to make it completely free yet. AFAIU remaining restrictions don't affect the freedom of the code developed. They are developing bazaar, Ubuntu and a lot of other interesting stuff. Even a GNU Emacs account exists: https://launchpad.net/emacs >From my experience: never encountered a such easy-going beginning. If it looks a little bit like a kindergarten, well, therefor it's made easy. Anyway, don't stuck with launchpad, should you know another or better tool. Its just an idea so far. Andreas