From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeremiah Dodds Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:04:55 -0400 Message-ID: <874nliz5aw.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351195504 31817 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2012 20:05:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:05:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 25 22:05:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TRTfz-0006Y6-I9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:05:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRTfr-00017d-8v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRTfo-00017F-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRTfn-0001Vd-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ia0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:49595) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TRTfn-0001VY-2X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ia0-f169.google.com with SMTP id h37so2021883iak.0 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:04:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=TB7kfs8UJSK+lztnPYP85R/YIBHkwlh/OILyabBNzoY=; b=TanIiMAd3M6k38qB3plp0QBoyPb1ImbYECqXdopKb5kNDtrQ4Pg1WVJVXG5jifPlju 9pLC1z0sYm3E+LWEU4juCaq6D1xyIAm5hLpHSPg6Ft72S+f+KzicziecnRo5Djhir6/t /isO2QNsByarzdqWI4Lm39Pw+BrK3E0YKTjEF/C4uKlV+EoUaOjIJdMXBpK3ta6syUpF Ynn3iuYXcmouIzzhQ1BhgEhN2PBCO8Sz7BbOSYbqNQD0xS6ATPAIWE+LNP5WBg6vb87y aE2t9lnNp6GgVINwcPHcuVG8d83PxDP5UjEPml5dicHLlUFseeEMhaWKx59UIhLqBviu Nt0A== Original-Received: by 10.50.236.104 with SMTP id ut8mr7252419igc.20.1351195497938; Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from friendface (cpe-98-27-142-179.neo.res.rr.com. [98.27.142.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id vq4sm5011486igb.10.2012.10.25.13.04.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:04:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:30:47 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.210.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154508 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > When looking for an Elisp package or feature, most people reach for > their browser before reaching for M-x list-packages. > But packages distributed via GNU ELPA won't show up because they're not > visible to search engines. I think it's very likely that M-x list-packages will get much more common as time progresses. It's certainly the first thing that I go to nowadays. > > So I think we should setup some GNU ELPA web-site that lists the > packages and where each package gets a web page which would be the > canonical web page for that package (so people can link to it from, say, > emacswiki) describing it (its README or "Commentary:") plus a link to > its repository. > > > Stefan I'm not sure how much this would help the problem stated -- certainly more than none -- but do think it would be a nice thing to have for packages distributed via GNU ELPA. Just my 2 cents, as a user. -- Jeremiah Dodds blog : http://jdodds.github.com github : https://github.com/jdodds freenode : exhortatory twitter : kaens