From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:57:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dV45a-0001S4-3U@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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> 2. The Emacs web site
You mean /software/emacs, right? I would call that a directory,
not a web site.
has a two-line menu, but no “Contributing” item
> in that menu. One has to go through “Documentation & Support”, ...
These suggestions make sense to me.
Nicolas Petton maintains those pages, I believe.
If he likes these ideas, would people like to help him implement them?
> 3. The ELPA site, <http://elpa.gnu.org/>, says this near the bottom of
> the home page: “To contribute new packages refer to the README”, where
> README is a link to another Org-like plain text file that discusses
> technicalities without mentioning copyright paperwork.
> **Suggestions:**
> * Make that README an attractively formatted, well-structured web page
> or a collection of pages.
> * Explain copyright assignment and alternatives there, too.
These are good ideas. Don't the Emacs maintainers maintain that site?
> 4. The MELPA site is not your competitor. It is there to fill a need,
> both for users and package authors.
I will be talking with them when I'm sure of what to say.
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Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-08 1:59 Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads John Wiegley
2017-07-08 10:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-08 12:57 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-07-08 17:03 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-08 22:12 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-08 22:50 ` Tim Cross
2017-07-10 9:29 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 15:07 ` Jean Louis
2017-07-10 9:29 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-09 0:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-10 2:07 ` Chad Brown
2017-07-10 9:27 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 13:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-11 11:45 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-11 15:00 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-11 18:01 ` John Wiegley
2017-07-11 18:37 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-11 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12 7:56 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-12 16:12 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12 17:49 ` emacs.org website [was Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads] Glenn Morris
2017-07-13 12:23 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 5:55 ` John Wiegley
2017-07-12 16:35 ` Glenn Morris
2017-07-11 22:57 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-07-12 23:12 ` Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Nicolas Petton
2017-07-13 12:26 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-15 1:33 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 8:16 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-24 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 15:36 ` Ken Manheimer
2017-07-10 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-08 14:57 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-09 3:04 ` Yann Hodique
2017-07-10 9:29 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 15:41 ` Ken Manheimer
2017-07-10 23:30 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-10 16:48 ` Yann Hodique
2017-07-10 20:43 ` Joost Kremers
2017-07-11 22:57 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-12 0:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 16:13 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-11 16:04 ` Improving GNU ELPA (was: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads) Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 1:26 ` Improving GNU ELPA Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-12 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 23:17 ` Nicolas Petton
2017-07-13 2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-13 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-13 19:18 ` Etienne Prud’homme
2017-07-13 22:07 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-16 16:04 ` Improving GNU ELPA (was: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads) Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-16 17:11 ` Improving GNU ELPA Stefan Monnier
2017-07-16 17:28 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2017-07-17 16:46 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-17 18:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-17 21:04 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-17 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 10:08 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 16:17 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 14:18 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-18 16:23 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-19 3:31 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 22:54 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 14:16 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-18 14:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-18 16:20 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-18 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 22:59 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-24 2:54 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-24 12:26 ` Phillip Lord
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-20 12:29 Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 12:37 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2017-07-20 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 13:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 14:48 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-24 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-20 14:01 ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 14:36 ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 14:47 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2017-07-20 15:09 ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 15:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-20 15:58 ` Paul Rankin
2017-07-20 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-21 11:21 ` Nikolaus Rath
2017-07-20 14:27 ` John Wiegley
2017-07-20 15:19 ` Stephen Berman
2017-07-20 16:19 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-07-24 2:52 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-24 3:05 ` Radon Rosborough
2017-07-25 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-20 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
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