Re: Let's announce each new package added to GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> I think it would be wise and helpful to announce each new package
> added for the first time to GNU ELPA or NonGNU ELPA.  These
> hand-written announcements would contain a brief paragraph that
> summarizes what the package does.  (This text could be stored in the
> repo so people could look at it later.)

Are you thinking about an automated system, or should the people that
add the package to elpa.git/nongnu.git send a separate message?

> The natural place to post these announcements is on info-gnu-emacs.
> However, if the rate of new packages in NonGNU ELPA would lead to too
> many messages for that list, we could announce the NonGNU ELPA
> packages on some other list.

Does it have to be immediate, or could a weekly-summary (something like
"new packages and releases") also do it?

> Each package would be announced this way only once.  Each _new
> version_ of a package is announced automatically on gnu-emacs-sources;
> for new versions, that is enough.  But those automatic announcements
> don't say whether the package is new.
>
> What do people think?

I don't know if it is necessary, whenever a package gets added to an
archive, it is marked as "new" in the package list.  Given a decent
commentary section (something I often mention to package maintainers),
you also get a good overview of what the package does.

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        Philip Kaludercic