From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA policy Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: <5640DC06.8070203@yandex.ru> References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <87fv0labbf.fsf@web.de> <87y4eda0kl.fsf@petton.fr> <22074.42230.156669.584780@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> <87ziyoxvdp.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <83k2psnzyh.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvuorz7n.fsf@gmail.com> <8337wfon3f.fsf@gnu.org> <56401834.8080402@yandex.ru> <83ziynma4s.fsf@gnu.org> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> <5640C952.2090509@yandex.ru> <83pozjm8bg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447092451 2687 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2015 18:07:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 18:07:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aaronecay@gmail.com, Stromeko@nexgo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 19:07:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvqqf-0008Cq-7o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:07:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54721 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zvqqe-0006OO-Jz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:07:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40789) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvqWq-0002WN-Ak for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvqWn-0000MX-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:46:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x236.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::236]:35148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZvqWn-0000MS-FG; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: by wmdw130 with SMTP id w130so39719022wmd.0; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PviQb27Z0ZmxwgnU5I3xtKKbuHmmFEo1CAlF9R9I0d0=; b=j87ELYIkXz3uIO8MHIzuJUPMBJPC7kiWvAYH7QtRGRXIDUnuRVgSW9ShRQhi7ZOeg+ HvnvXCpqTwxHy/zNSwy8LO+TvVjFiwmp3LLvjvatyMW9u/osQp96qX8H6YOzhQj1UnSJ Q/AO2+zwaG7+nRbxXeNfbHUvGBkUZ2mKg0QHxRiTYhKqfzbWfQN1uPPkSMTaqgTSmnwN 5+Blvpebq0zehtfBSSIMBu1kuEiZFW3o7VVfMrtTHkwusFmzvE2CCN+nIERvA9kGXHvU x/wolr7W0aJ/nCsN2GtllvDoE/jU601S5JbHP/UHEZ38nCYmCwwYfvMfWY0j1q89mCD5 jZaA== X-Received: by 10.194.78.162 with SMTP id c2mr30513190wjx.112.1447091208917; Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [10.9.0.103] (nat.webazilla.com. [78.140.128.228]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id wx10sm16527092wjb.40.2015.11.09.09.46.47 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:46:48 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/42.0 In-Reply-To: <83pozjm8bg.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::236 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193732 Archived-At: On 11/09/2015 06:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> So far, it seems we're short of manpower to manage even the current one. >> To manage the infrastructure, improve the scripts, etc. > > Is it really such a significant effort? I wasn't aware of that. There are things to be done, and just a couple months ago nobody was doing them. I see some movement now, e.g. the last commit by Thomas Fitzsimmons. >> I cannot "git pull" a new version of Dired into my stable installation >> of Emacs 24.5. > > Of course you can: just copy the file over. Automatic update is a really handy feature when you have 50+ packages installed. See some user statistics at https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3s4k03/how_many_packages_do_you_use/ > We could probably find a few more. MH-E, for example. (Of course, > their developers will have to agree to move.) Yeah, I bet the majority of our users are unaware of what MH-E is.