From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gilaras Drakeson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-Lisp Bill-Board Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:28 -0500 Message-ID: <86hc3bihef.fsf@susa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> 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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233681044 27249 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2009 17:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:10:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 03 18:11:57 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 1LUOoP-0005y7-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:11:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43625 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOn5-0007Cq-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:10:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOel-0007Iz-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOek-0007Hr-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40259 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOei-0007Hc-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:50160 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUOeh-0001Ff-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUOec-0000yd-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:01:42 +0000 Original-Received: from bas3-toronto02-1279612245.dsl.bell.ca ([76.69.85.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:01:42 +0000 Original-Received: from gilaras by bas3-toronto02-1279612245.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:01:42 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas3-toronto02-1279612245.dsl.bell.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qiPMjf2mjEIYeuJpfpCNwwgPoRM= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:108691 Archived-At: >> I've thought at a kind of bill-board, where everyone >> interested might pin his code onto it. > http://emacswiki.org Currently, emacswiki is the de facto place for such things, but I think it is not good enough. It definitely needs more maintenance man-power. But also, I think there are two other specific ways to improve emacswiki: * official support 1: Emacswiki can be mentioned in a more visible place in the documentations, not just in MORE.STUFF, and a passing note in the FAQ. At least there can be an official consensus that emacswiki is _the place_ for these things. * official support 2: having a mode for emacswiki that is _installed by default_, more than just webjump and some ERC functions. It could be just oddmuse.el, pointing to emacswiki by default. If emacswiki cannot be improved, launchpad may provide an alternative repository which is easier to maintain (a DVCS is easier to maintain than a wiki, IMHO). >> An account on launchpad seems suitable for that task. > > launchpad is not free software, correct? [1][2] > > That seems unacceptable. It will be much nicer if they release launchpad as free software (if they do as they claim on their FAQ). However, I find it hard to use only free software web-services. (Even emacswiki uses a custom Google search). -- Gilaras