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: Splitting GNU ELPA Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 17:40:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftbu7jpx.fsf@gnu.org> References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <83imgt9uk8.fsf@gnu.org> <83imgs81dt.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="84116"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 16:41:27 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 1jbPuR-000Lmm-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 16:41:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53596 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbPuQ-0002kU-Ml for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 10:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbPtr-0001OP-MA for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 10:40:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbPtq-0001tE-Tt; Wed, 20 May 2020 10:40:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3138 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbPth-0003Bi-Fy; Wed, 20 May 2020 10:40:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:21 -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:251057 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, > phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:21 -0400 > > > A more concrete recommendation would be to examine each proposed > > package more closely and try to decide whether we'd like to have that > > in Emacs or "close by", or just offer it for download to those who are > > interested (a.k.a. "just distribute"). This should include some > > meaningful discussion with arguments on both directions, and hopefully > > some consensus about the decision. > > > We could also ask the package developer to state their POV on these > > matters, and their plans for further development and maintenance. > > It seems good to me. Do you suggest making a list of questions > and sending that to each developer, or would you rather just talk > with them without a preplanned list? It might be good to have this in the README file on ELPA. I'd like to hear Stefan's opinion about this.