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: "Write a new package" culture instead of patches? Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 22:33:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83tv0e9x14.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="60074"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ndame Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 21:34:48 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 1jaP3g-000FWK-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 21:34:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53472 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaP3f-0006iw-6T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 15:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48458) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaP2U-0005qQ-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jaP2U-0004PS-4h; Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2127 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jaP2T-0001Xi-Hr; Sun, 17 May 2020 15:33:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from ndame on Sun, 17 May 2020 19:25:50 +0000) 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:250654 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 19:25:50 +0000 > From: ndame > > The obvious answer is because they solved the problem, it works, available to anyone and they can't be > bothered with jumping through additional hoops (paperwork, following the core rules for docs, code > formatting, commit message, etc.). > > For some people getting their code into the core is a source of pride. For others it's a pointless excercise, > because it's trivially available from MELPA which the majority of users use anyway for other packages too. But MELPA asks you to jump through a different set of hoops, which seems to fly in the face of your theory. IME, many people who "solved the problem" want others to enjoy their solution, and that is what gives them the incentive to "jump through hoops".