From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA contributions? Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:00:47 +0200 Message-ID: <874mhzi4ww.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87612g5tmx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444467806 26183 80.91.229.3 (10 Oct 2015 09:03:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:03:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Artur Malabarba Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 11:03:26 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 1Zkq3n-0006Ab-70 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:03:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zkq3m-0006XU-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zkq3g-0006Ud-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zkq3f-0000fz-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:03:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zkq3e-0000f8-2i; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59552 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zkq3b-0004eL-LP; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 05:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 75880DF4E6; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:00:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Artur Malabarba's message of "Fri, 9 Oct 2015 23:42:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:191101 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > The takeaway message is: Yes the readme could use some improvements. > > On 9 Oct 2015 9:32 am, "David Kastrup" wrote: >> I've taken a look at elpa.gnu.org and the README referenced in there, >> and at lists.gnu.org. There does not appear to be a discussion list for >> ELPA, > > There isn't. Elpa stuff is discussed on the emacs lists. But the Readme > should certainly say that. > >> and the README just contains the technical details of uploading >> material to ELPA (it's not really clear when to choose an external >> branch). > > Yes, that needs to be clarified too. The idea is to just use a subtree, > unless you _know_ you want an external branch for some reason. > >> There are no obvious submission addresses or anything like >> that. > > Yes, that should just be Emacs-devel as well. That does not really appear to match the realities. There are a host of commits in ELPA coming from known Emacs developers (well, push access...) for projects I never heard of on the developer list. And since ELPA contributions (if I understood correctly) require an Emacs copyright assignment anyway and that is coupled with commit access fairly often, there really is a strong appearance of "just write to ELPA if you think you know what you are doing". And if I don't hear anything about the prospected file/project I posted here, that's likely what I'll end up doing. Still feels a bit unsual, though. -- David Kastrup