From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 10:27:53 +0000 Message-ID: <87czlipck6.fsf@posteo.net> References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.com> <87lf07hn0z.fsf@localhost> <83pmpjpzxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87lf07krdj.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23788"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, Stefan Kangas , eliz@gnu.org, salutis@me.com To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 11:28:38 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 1n1nF7-0005yD-Tm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:28:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49948 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1nF6-0000kp-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:28:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:46100) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1nEU-00005M-Ab for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:59359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1nES-0003iC-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:27:58 -0500 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E3D5240101 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:27:55 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1640600875; bh=ESdEjnLhFnbceB/lflJxjTA1Kl4UWo4UipQu+t44+3U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=P8nYSOpz9LInH9R73LyF15MA8jnzlHgc8wFHvXRXoPLJGOxEb+gT+Xymec3wFBp2B D0M29AS3AntniI3qHp862PUyFpe/QZfkunRbqngvqf4o2Z0iNVspt+5iVOt2v+aijT vm4+3OVg4+h7NxadMTTFJpzWEmwikuCPcVv3s8rbo8JpYzgSDisiHnDEKItoowvx1D sH/q7xx1DLkuiWQtQOUOMhi2NBIR/NmJ6A1rYgHjBBwVKBT5b5eNvOfWMtetTyZNX1 uO51sE28h9gulR7ljZZ4vmL75q0tXUtYQ/JtDM2z5fu5ZFVq0dPP8VwLQxPEAxHCKS D0DQKSjzzWbXA== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4JMv4p3bBRz6tm5; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:27:54 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.67.36.66; envelope-from=philipk@posteo.net; helo=mout02.posteo.de X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283410 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > ELPA checks for a "News" section or file, that are displayed on the > > > websites elpa.{gnu,nongnu}.org. package.el could do the same, then you > > > wouldn't have to parse through a perhaps redundant vcs log and the > > > incentive to maintain a news section/file would increase. > > Could someone please clarify exactly what is proposed? > > Would package.el look for a NEWS section for each of the specific > packages the user has specified? Or would it look for NEWS files > published by a site such as MELPA that covers lots of packages? What I am proposing (and hope to implement soon) could be a command like `package-news' that attempts to find a news source in the same manner as elpa-admin.el does (see `elpaa--get-NEWS' in elpa-admin.el). -- Philip Kaludercic