Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Paul Nelson <ultrono@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Philip, just thought I’d check in on this and offer again to help
>> however I can. Thanks, best,  Paul
>
> Sorry, the message got buried in my inbox.  I'll all the packages now,
> but it remains too much to review for me now.  I hope to return back to
> that at some point.

Worse still, I have actually added the packages already by accident!  It
seems I was inattentive when updating cobol-mode[0], my apologies...
But the reason your packages haven't appeared on the archive yet is that
the copyright line doesn't list the "Free Software Foundation, Inc.",
which all packages on ELPA must do.  So just apply a patch like this to
your packages, and make sure to bump the version tag while you are at
it: