{"id":7717,"date":"2018-12-27T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7717"},"modified":"2018-12-27T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:39:21","slug":"a-reminder-about-melpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7717","title":{"rendered":"A Reminder about MELPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re anything more than a casual Emacs user, one of your most important resources is almost certainly the <a href=\"https:\/\/melpa.org\/#\/\">MELPA package repository<\/a>. I\u2019ve <a href=\"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6839\">mentioned this before<\/a> but apparently a reminder is needed: MELPA is a voluntary operation run by Steve Purcell and whoever he can get to help out. He doesn\u2019t get paid and, believe it or not, he has a family and job that also make demands on his time. Even so, he spends a lot of time and effort on MELPA. Follow that last link to see what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m posting this reminder because someone on the Emacs subreddit was whining that it was taking too long to get new packages approved. MELPA is curated and part of that curation process is reviewing each package to make sure it meets MELPA\u2019s guidelines and is safe. This requires human scrutiny, which, again, means Purcell. As my previous post makes clear, he\u2019s dancing as fast as he can.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I found the reddit post annoying. I can only imagine how Purcell will feel when he sees it. As I said, he doesn\u2019t get paid but I\u2019m sure he\u2019d be happy to get a little gratitude instead of complaints for his efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re anything more than a casual Emacs user, one of your most important resources is almost certainly the MELPA package repository. I\u2019ve mentioned this before but apparently a reminder is needed: MELPA is a voluntary operation run by Steve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=7717\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-7717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}