Question regarding adding new configurations

[phikal]

Hi,

at the bottom of the README.org file you mention the following:

Feel free to open a pull request. Please don’t add your personal config file. I won’t accept it unless it is vetted by other community members.

and I've seen you say something along these lines many times in the pull requests. Yet it seems a bit arbitrary to me (and to others). Certain personal configurations do get accepted, like #28, while others just get rejected without any understandable explanation (#1, #2, #5, #7, ...). Just referring to the quote above, just let's people hope that they might get accepted.

Wouldn't it be better to set up some criteria, or minimum requirements to get added to the list? Or maybe one must highlight something original and/or noteworthy to get accepted, be it their configuration or not. I believe that this would not only increase the quality of the list, but also make it easier to maintain, since people would know when it makes sense to suggest their configuration. Maybe one could even go beyond the table-format and create a properly structured org file with code snippets, images and what-not.

I hope there can be a conversation about this :)

[caisah]

Hi,

Most of the people on this list are either heavy contributors to MELPA or people who get involved in the community beyond having an .emacs.d dir.

Of course anybody can get listed but it has to be for some good reasons (either having an interesting config or being active in the community). If I let anybody submit their config I may well create a script that lists all the configs out there.

I'm open to suggestions but currently I'm not looking to evolve this list into something else. There are a lot of elisp snippets all over the internet and on the wiki, so I don't want to create another place like that.
What people came with lately was no something to improve this list but only get a self listing.

[caisah]

Hi,

Most of the people on this list are either heavy contributors to MELPA or people who get involved in the community beyond having an .emacs.d dir.

Of course anybody can get listed but it has to be for some good reasons (either having an interesting config or being active in the community). If I let anybody submit their config I may well create a script that lists all the configs out there.

I'm open to suggestions but currently I'm not looking to evolve this list into something else. There are a lot of elisp snippets all over the internet and on the wiki, so I don't want to create another place like that.
What people came with lately was no something to improve this list but only get a self listing.

[phikal]

Most of the people on this list are either heavy contributors to MELPA or people who get involved in the community beyond having an .emacs.d dir.

Aha, that makes sense. I guess it wouldn't be bad to mention that. Might have the indirect effect of making people more eager to contribute back to the community?

If I let anybody submit their config I may well create a script that lists all the configs out there.

What about setting up a shorter list of "See Also" (ala Wikipedia) configurations, that meat some minimal criteria. Sometimes I'd just like to have some central place to be able to find Emacs configurations, and on some level I was hoping to find that here.

[phikal]

Most of the people on this list are either heavy contributors to MELPA or people who get involved in the community beyond having an .emacs.d dir.

Aha, that makes sense. I guess it wouldn't be bad to mention that. Might have the indirect effect of making people more eager to contribute back to the community?

If I let anybody submit their config I may well create a script that lists all the configs out there.

What about setting up a shorter list of "See Also" (ala Wikipedia) configurations, that meat some minimal criteria. Sometimes I'd just like to have some central place to be able to find Emacs configurations, and on some level I was hoping to find that here.