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Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA
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Philip Kaludercic |
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Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 10:15:39 +0000 |
Sacha Chua <sacha@sachachua.com> writes:
>> but also commented on and "reviewed". This seems to suggest a review
>> site. (A quick web search suggests that there are frameworks out
>> there to facilitate creating such sites.) That said, posting
>> opinions seems of low value and rarely actionable (see below).
>
> Prot does a great job of writing blog posts and often making videos about
> his new packages, which are usually posted to GNU ELPA. I link to these in
> Emacs News, and they'll probably come up in searches as well. I notice that
> interesting new packages tend to get picked up in blog posts and Reddit
> threads in the weeks after the packages are published. I currently don't
> have the time to summarize posts beyond quick links, but perhaps someone
> would like to do a monthly round up like the way This Month in Org does?
This is totally understandable, but yes something like "This Month in
Org" would be good reference.
>> Perhaps also a place where people can post ideas for packages
>> This is a conversation. Would not a mailing list suffice. What is
>> wrong with help-gnu-emacs?
Nothing is wrong with it, it is just that there are plenty of people who
don't know or don't follow it in detail.
> I sometimes see conversations like that grow out of mailing lists or
> web-based forums like Reddit. Ideas are pretty easy to float, though, and
> it's hard to match them up with a person with the same itch. It seems to
> work out better when people share what they've figured out so far, then
> other people say they want something like that too, and then the code gets
> turned into a package.
>> or where abandoned packages can find new maintainers.
>> How would this relate to https://github.com/emacsattic?
That is for packages that have lost a maintainer, right? So the package
must have gone on without any maintenance for long enough for someone
reviewing patches and fixing issues like new warnings or the usage of
deprecated functions. I was thinking about a place where a maintainer
could announce that they don't have the interest or the time to attend
to a package, so that a replacement could been found sooner.
> When there's an announcement, I usually put it in a Help Wanted section at
> the start of Emacs News.
I did not know that you do that, in that case this specific idea is
superfluous.
>> I am very impressed with Eli's leadership of emacs development.
>
> Eli is awesome!
1+
>> More immediately, look at his effort to drive toward better
>> abstraction and unification of the existing find-file and
>> find-sibling-file with Damien Cassou's pending related-files. This is
>> exactly the sort of effort I would hope to support. I see such
>> activities as curation. Thus I could imagine an emacs-curate mailing
>> list. I would be happy to subscribe.
>
> Andres Ramirez has been sending me links to interesting emacs-devel
> messages for possible inclusion in Emacs News. I'd love to get other
> people's links and notes as well. I read emacs-devel on a very cursory
> level (mostly looking at subjects and what Eli replies :) ), so extra
> context would be great!
I didn't know this either, I will keep this in mind. If there are
interesting bug reports, would you be interested in my notifying you?
- A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Marcin Borkowski, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Emanuel Berg, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Sacha Chua, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, John Yates, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Sacha Chua, 2022/10/15
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA,
Philip Kaludercic <=
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Sacha Chua, 2022/10/16
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Emanuel Berg, 2022/10/16
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Eduardo Ochs, 2022/10/16
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Philip Kaludercic, 2022/10/16
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Jean Louis, 2022/10/16
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Emanuel Berg, 2022/10/17
- Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Emanuel Berg, 2022/10/15
Re: A Zine/Newsletter for ELPA, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/15