Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi John,

On 7/8/17 4:59 AM, John Wiegley wrote:

> First what do people think of such an idea, and second, does it sound like
> something anyone would be interesting in adding to package.el, so more people
> can learn about how to contribute to ELPA?

Doesn't sound great: the message would be shown to the users, and there 
are much more of them than the package developers. It will be a nuisance.

> I have a feeling that a lot of
> package authors choose MELPA because the barrier to entry is so low, and they
> may not realize how easy it is to get it into Emacs as well.

Try asking the MELPA developers about including that paragraph (or a 
modified version) somewhere near the instructions for publishing 
packages to MELPA.