From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zgoopkwb.fsf@gnu.org> <874k6wsajh.fsf@posteo.net> <87o8536fry.fsf@yahoo.com> <87lf07hn0z.fsf@localhost> <83pmpjpzxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87lf07krdj.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14209"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, yantar92@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, salutis@me.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 27 05:21:00 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 1n1hVL-0003YQ-Sz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:21:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35002 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hVK-0003Q4-Hy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPz-0001HR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=45054 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPy-0003FR-Js; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=iCpRyy+P+7bwJs0Vu4cKgDsmzKrwEM1h3AtNFhpuMjc=; b=fIgAPToeZDaH oVxTEywbiPw8Le4FahlzrXX0HUpBiBfBEILpPwkrUAIWneGHWgwuXsc5aXlvisSCG3dflTZGB40FU ZJYDuXmM6GX6MID2nl3uNJ+GAn3LWgkJPvLxz4w5HRspytEeXz9GC48BOfhxugJ7pjxtaZ8mZKjKI cXxufbEe8dTsPlRBnBuTHotfJ7X06sEukokTDSirGhvFhtTIr+qg6AwN+hwbZds0nxgpoIIzAUmQi qdOEfHSJT+GXMd/9gcWJn+vM5MVYouKSdcjmWix/nEYDkRmxBHpHKt/jKvYFhvqEQFmJki+Essi8+ X39KT3OkSLtdmrzlUjU0Mw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n1hPy-0001cc-QI; Sun, 26 Dec 2021 23:15:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 13:33:27 -0800) 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:283386 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. ]]] > > 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)