From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: devdocs
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 18:53:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tumlh46s.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5yz1eis7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 29 May 2021 10:09:36 -0400")
On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 10:09, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> [About the silly name: "devdocs" is already taken by a MELPA package.
>> That package is quite different and doesn't provide a viewer; it simply
>> calls `browse-url' on a suitable https://devdocs.io location.]
>
> AFAICT that MELPA package hasn't seen any activity in the last 4 years
> and is *very* simple. Any chance you could make yours be a superset of
> that one and then ask its author if he minds that you take that name
> (basically, ask him to pass maintainership to you)?
>
>
> Stefan
All right, the author of the existing "devdocs" package agreed to hand
over maintainership[1]. I just reimplemented myself the one command
provided by that old package, so there should be no copyright questions.
The git repository of my package is now at https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el
[1]: https://github.com/xuchunyang/DevDocs.el/issues/4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-29 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-29 11:54 [ELPA] New package: evdocs Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 12:05 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-05-29 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-29 15:11 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-29 16:53 ` Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2021-05-29 17:20 ` [ELPA] New package: devdocs Yikai Zhao
2021-05-30 15:30 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-05-30 15:44 ` Yikai Zhao
2021-05-30 14:10 ` [ELPA] New package: evdocs T.V Raman
2021-05-30 14:22 ` Augusto Stoffel
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