From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 09:34:14 +0200 Organization: GNU Message-ID: <87imglg51l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="4915"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 24 09:34:50 2020 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 1jcl9m-0001Bz-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 09:34:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38976 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jcl9l-0007We-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 03:34:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jcl9L-00077P-FD for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 03:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jcl9L-0001WI-6t for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 May 2020 03:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [2a01:e35:2fe1:f780:f51f:c177:3b23:439e] (port=36694 helo=guerry) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jcl9E-0007j6-E6; Sun, 24 May 2020 03:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: by guerry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 726A21A604DE; Sun, 24 May 2020 09:34:14 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 18 May 2020 23:59:08 -0400") 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:251310 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. ]]] > > > > Better in which sense? Do you mean, better for you in maintaining the > > > package? > > > As explained in another email: better discoverability. Better at helping > > the users notice the package. > > > Simply including a file in the Emacs distro doesn't do much. > > Do people have any concrete suggestions for how to improve this? I think advertizing GNU ELPA on the Emacs splash screen would be a good first step. -- Bastien