Re: Maintenance of cobol-mode.el on ELPA

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

kristofer@hjelmtorp.se writes:

>> On 05/03/2024 7:42 AM CEST Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 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?
>> 
>
> That sounds great!
> I'm in the process of setting up a repository on Sourcehut. I will let
> you know when it's ready!
>
> I guess I just take the files from Elpa (just "cobol.el" from what I
> can see) and commit it to my new repo?

I think it would be better if you preserved the history by basing your
modifications on the branch in elpa.git:

  git clone -b externals/cobol-mode https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git

and then pushing that to SourceHut.

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

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