From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:37:49 +0200 Message-ID: <83eeiwlsn6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24417"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 15:39:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWRD-0005qO-A3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:38:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWRC-0005jG-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWQW-0005CQ-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:38:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWQV-000831-Kc; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:38:11 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4197 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxWQA-0005jj-7L; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:37:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:15:16 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262683 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:15:16 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: Jean Louis , arthur.miller@live.com, > rms@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > To promote means to contribute to the progress or growth of, in one > definition, and in other it means to make publicity for > something. repology.org does neither of these. It provides basic information about each package, and doesn't state any opinion on them, FAICT. It lets you judge that. That's neither promotion nor advancement nor publicity, in any reasonable sense of these words relevant to this discussion. > repology.el is promoting software packages including many non-free > software packages. I disagree. It allows me to quickly find basic information about a package, which is important in my job as an Emacs maintainer. I explained in my other messages why this is important and why I do it almost every day. > You may have different opinion on what promoting means. I don't agree > it is not promoting. You are entitled to your views, but here we discuss what Emacs as a project should do. That cannot be based on your or mine personal views.