From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 18:02:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftbmvix7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@yandex.ru> <83blmdxus4.fsf@gnu.org> <831rn8vy6o.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="95986"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 17:03:34 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 1jdb78-000OsI-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 17:03:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41188 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdb77-00038s-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 11:03:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdb69-0001nt-UZ for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 11:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdb69-0007RQ-KJ; Tue, 26 May 2020 11:02:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1172 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jdb62-00029I-5P; Tue, 26 May 2020 11:02:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:02 -0400) 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:251454 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:02 -0400 > > > So basically what's missing is the write access issue. That should be > > a single sentence: we don't have ELPA write access, only access to the > > entire Emacs repository, so they need to request membership in the > > Emacs project. > > That's how it is now, but we could change it. For instance, we could > make a Savannah project for each package in GNU ELPA, give access to > the Emacs maintainers plus the developers of the package, and make > releases of GNU ELPA by collecting all those packages. If and when we change the situation, we will update the README accordingly. That file needs to be maintained.