Re: Maintenance of cobol-mode.el on ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

kristofer@hjelmtorp.se writes:

> Greetings Emacs maintainers.
>
> I noticed in the last update to the Elpa package; cobol-mode.el, that is now orphaned and that you are looking for someone to step up and maintain it.
>
> I would be willing to take over that role if you would let me. I work with COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL) in my in daily work and use Emacs
> together with cobol-mode.el to do it. My emacs-lisp skills are
> mediocre at best but I will do my best to fix bugs and keep it
> working. But my ambition is to work on the missing features listed in
> the package, update it to include changes in the COBOL standards,
> improve the indentation and maybe in the future work on a tree-sitter
> implementation.

That sounds great!

> I do have very little knowledge about how a Elpa package like this is
> usually developed and how the commit process works so any information
> and tips are welcomed.

Currently the repository is part of elpa.git itself, but if someone else
were to take over maintenance, we could switch it to mirroring some
external repository that you would create.  You can use any Git forge
you like (I'd personally recommend Codeberg or Sourcehut).

Any changes you push to that repository will automatically be
synchronised upstream.  To release a new package, you just have to bump
the ";; Version: ..." header at the top of the file.

How does that sound like to you?

> I have recently signed and sent in my FSF papers.
>
> Best Regards
> Kristofer Hjelmtorp

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