From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <371dc591-fc65-61b9-3eda-be09a5e653a8@yandex.ru> <5d6bfce5-62dd-dba9-c741-e7c9ec9d166a@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499773567 25802 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 11:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 11 13:46:01 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtc8-0006K1-5g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:46:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45638 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtcD-00048c-M4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45393) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtc4-00047m-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtc4-0002fd-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtbz-0002dh-Ue; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUtbz-0004cR-5I; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:45:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <5d6bfce5-62dd-dba9-c741-e7c9ec9d166a@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:02:26 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216465 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > It's an ill-defined task, at best. That's not a problem. We're talking about communicating an idea to people. Which files, when, where to store the > last message date? Will it distract the user from writing code (will it > make the buffer contents jump)? These are technical details that I am sure we will handle. Since you don't need to do the work, don't make a fuss about it. There will be a setting to turn off the messages. Once you know the point we want to show people, shut off the message if you like. How will it deal with personal > configurations (which people have no intention of publishing), and will > it continue to show those messages even after the package is published? I see a misunderstanding. This is not a question of "dealing with" individual packages one by one. The goal is to make sure people are aware of the importance of getting legal papers as they accept contributions. The idea of doing this in specific situations (maybe editing Elisp files, maybe editing package files) is to identify the people it is useful to inform: people who are developing Emacs packages. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.