Re: Maintenance of cobol-mode.el on ELPA

[kristofer@hjelmtorp.se]

> On 05/03/2024 7:42 AM CEST Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> kristofer@hjelmtorp.se writes:
> 
> > Greetings Emacs maintainers.
> >
> > I noticed in the last update to the Elpa package; cobol-mode.el, that is now orphaned and that you are looking for someone to step up and maintain it.
> >
> > I would be willing to take over that role if you would let me. I work with COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL) in my in daily work and use Emacs
> > together with cobol-mode.el to do it. My emacs-lisp skills are
> > mediocre at best but I will do my best to fix bugs and keep it
> > working. But my ambition is to work on the missing features listed in
> > the package, update it to include changes in the COBOL standards,
> > improve the indentation and maybe in the future work on a tree-sitter
> > implementation.
> 
> That sounds great!
> 
> > I do have very little knowledge about how a Elpa package like this is
> > usually developed and how the commit process works so any information
> > and tips are welcomed.
> 
> Currently the repository is part of elpa.git itself, but if someone else
> were to take over maintenance, we could switch it to mirroring some
> external repository that you would create.  You can use any Git forge
> you like (I'd personally recommend Codeberg or Sourcehut).
> 
> Any changes you push to that repository will automatically be
> synchronised upstream.  To release a new package, you just have to bump
> the ";; Version: ..." header at the top of the file.
> 
> How does that sound like to you?
> 

That sounds great!
I'm in the process of setting up a repository on Sourcehut. I will let you know when it's ready!

I guess I just take the files from Elpa (just "cobol.el" from what I can see) and commit it to my new repo?


> > I have recently signed and sent in my FSF papers.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Kristofer Hjelmtorp
> 
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> 	Philip Kaludercic on peregrine