From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Porter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA? Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 14:24:13 -0600 Message-ID: <875z4oz576.fsf@alphapapa.net> References: <15c3cc00-f56e-6e52-2228-30817639315a@gmail.com> <87lfdkioeo.fsf@dick> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6449"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 21:25:28 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 1ktG7z-0001Xv-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:25:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42292 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktG7y-0006Cb-IG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktG6x-0005ha-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktG6v-0004DI-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktG6s-0000G3-D2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:24:18 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:261864 Archived-At: dick.r.chiang@gmail.com writes: > s> Seems request.el will not be included in GNU ELPA. > s> https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request/issues/112 > > I disagree with your conclusion. > > Just because some random contributor (dickmao) is unwilling to solicit > Mr. Arakaki's written release does not mean you must do the same. > After all, his acquaintance with Mr. Arakaki is just as non-existent > as yours. > > An importunate email campaign to the effect of "I will continue > emailing you once per week until you respond definitively yes or no. > Apologies in advance." seems apropos. Mr. Arakaki has not commited to the repo in over 6.5 years: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request/commits?author=tkf Since, according to GitHub, he has made over 4,000 commits to other projects in the past year, it seems likely that he is uninterested in the project. As I pointed out in my message of a few days ago about "Emacs HTTP libraries," Request.el seems to have some issues with governance and maintenance: https://github.com/tkf/emacs-request/issues/172 So although it's generally usable, considering 1) the bugs I encountered in using it, ones that forced me to use url.el instead, 2) its maintenance issues, and 3) the issues I pointed out regarding Curl and handling of sensitive data on the command line and in temporary files, I don't think it should be added to ELPA. (If you have more questions, please refer to the message I posted, which I thoroughly footnoted.) Instead, I would encourage Lars to continue the work on his with-fetched-url branch, which looks very promising.