Sacha Chua <sa...@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?
