"Thomas S. Dye" <[email protected]> writes:
> Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> writes:
>> Christian Moe <[email protected]> writes:
>>> To my mind, this suggests that we /should/ add a section listing the
>>> two GNU ELPA packages [...]

>> +1 for listing packages that have documentation on WORG. Although we
>> may need to check if that documentation is up-to-date, especially for
>> packages that used to be in org-contrib. Maybe contact the
>> maintainers to double-check.

> +1.  I can add a table for the two GNU Elpa languages, and correct the
> org-contrib table.  Also, I'll contact maintainers if I have
> questions.

Thanks! Looks good.

(I see it hasn't built yet; I hope that clears up.)

>>> Meanwhile, there are some 80 ob-*.el packages on Melpa, from the
>>> fairly obscure to Rust and PHP. Should we list them as well? It wouldn't be 
>>> a
>>> problem, but it would need to be updated every now and then, and it
>>> wouldn't add value to what people can already do with list-packages [...]

>> There gotta be a way to do it programmatically I think. [...]

> I'm against listing the Melpa packages.
> There is the maintenance issue and the effort to program a solution,
> and my gut feeling is that no one is likely to write documentation so
> their package can be advertised on Worg.  My $0.02.

We can cross that bridge when someone offers documentation. (I'll
consider contacting maintainers to invite them to do that, at least for
some of the more popular languages -- but that's long-term, not a
priority.)

Regards,
Christian

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