From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 22:01:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83blet8qqf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86a6ugnopl.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83im94b17m.fsf@gnu.org> <834kknatxs.fsf@gnu.org> <83r1nqaph6.fsf@gnu.org> <83eejqak4s.fsf@gnu.org> <867dphmt73.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5792"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: daniele@grinta.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 21:06:32 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kpd4C-0001PA-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:06:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42236 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpd4B-0001gV-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:06:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpczi-0006IZ-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:01:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kpczh-00061t-7M; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3655 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kpczc-0004KK-51; Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:01:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <867dphmt73.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:44:48 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261045 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Cc: Stefan Monnier , daniele@grinta.net, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:44:48 -0800 > > > And what does it mean "start doing it", really? We prepare a tarball > > only once we start a pretest, by which time it's too late to > > experiment with untested machinery. > > Clearly we need to test this; I suggest we create a branch > feature/bundle-elpa, and do a practice tarball release on that branch. Fine with me, assuming we can convince enough people to try that tarball. > We also need a place to document decisions, rationales, and process; I > suggest admin/bundle-elpa to start. We may migrate parts of that into > other documents later. SGTM, thanks.