> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:56:40 +0000 > CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected] > From: Jean Louis <[email protected]> > > Does that mean you wish to exclusively include repology.el into GNU ELPA? > > Like you can't use that package without including it in GNU ELPA? Can you use > website directly? > > I can. > > What is real problem there?
I thought it was obvious. Since it's evidently isn't, let me cross the t's and dot the i's for you: We develop Emacs because we think it helps users. We don't develop it as some academic exercise to be shown in some ivory tower, nor as merely an example of what Free Software can become. I came to Emacs because it helped me do my everyday's work, and I've taken upon myself the burden of being its maintainer because I want it to help others, and become better at helping them. Thus, whether I personally can access that site is immaterial. I don't need your, or anybody's, permission to do whatever I want with my systems. It's the Emacs user community that I'm trying to help, and I believe I'm not the only one who needs to do those tasks that I described. Refusal to make this, or any other package that has the similar audacity of showing information about software in a completely neutral way, to be available from GNU ELPA diminishes from the community, and thus hurts me in my effort to help the community members to enjoy software freedom. That is why I'm speaking up.
