On Friday, 11 September 2020 06:21:20 CEST Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> No progress is happening on NonGNU ELPA.  We need someone who would
> like to implement it.  Would someone like to do that?
>
>

For other interested parties:
I seem to remember there being discussion about NonGNU ELPA needing a
repository system. Would it be sufficient to use git submodules for packages
that are in git source control and basic shell scripts for packages distributed
through Emacs Wiki?