Re: anything.el inclusion

[Johan Busk Eriksson]

At Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:38:52 +0200,
Juri Linkov wrote:
> 
> > What needs to happen for inclusion of anything.el by itself,
> > in your opinion?
> 
> What do you think about the following idea for package.el?
> 
> To every package handled by package.el add a new parameter that tracks
> the package's "popularity".  This could mean either the number of
> downloads from the server that hosts these packages, or to add UI
> where users would be able to vote for a package.
> 
> Then we could sort all available packages by popularity in package.el UI,
> so the top packages are objective candidates for inclusion in Emacs.
> 
> -- 
> Juri Linkov
> http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
> 
> 

A popularity contest? Please let me opt-out of that.