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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Cc: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>,
	Emacs-Devel List <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:05:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkiacj_UrHt0FXqF4Ajj_1OUi_Df9yOAz3TtFZjVRuEqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <X9ILWUIm77YDldsN@protected.rcdrun.com>

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> non-GNU ELPA is more similar to a fork.

I believe this is a misconception that risks damaging the reputation and
success of NonGNU ELPA.  According to Wikipedia, "a project fork happens
when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and
start independent development on it, creating a distinct and separate
piece of software".  This is not what NonGNU ELPA is about.

Yes, NonGNU ELPA will have support for maintaining forks (as does GNU
ELPA, MELPA, Marmalade, etc.).  Richard has pointed out that it is
important that we have such support in case it is necessary.  But in my
view this is still largely hypothetical and would in any case be applied
only in exceptional cases.

For NonGNU ELPA, we will seek to cooperate with existing package
maintainers, that will ideally for the most part maintain their packages
as they have done up until their inclusion in the archive.  My hope
would be that we could also contribute back some of our knowledge and
help improve the package from a technical (and sometimes ethical)
standpoint.

> As I said, hypothethical talk is not useful. Bring a package and ask
> if such can be included. Let us see, that we do not create problems
> out of nothing.

Indeed.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-09 12:55 non-gnu elpa issue tracking Boruch Baum
2020-12-09 16:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-09 19:18   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-09 21:48     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-09 23:40       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-09 23:58       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-11  6:09         ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-11  6:05       ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10  4:32     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10  6:28       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-09 19:23   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-09 23:22     ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-10  0:09       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-10  9:14         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-10 11:23           ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-10 14:19             ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-10 16:37               ` Jean Louis
2020-12-11  6:10                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10 11:49           ` Jean Louis
2020-12-10 14:05             ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-12-10 15:48           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-10 16:05             ` Jean Louis
2020-12-10 17:35               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-11  6:09           ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-11  6:04       ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-11 11:10         ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-12  5:34           ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-12  6:37             ` Tim Cross
2020-12-12 10:08               ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-12 15:23                 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-12 17:07                   ` Thibaut Verron
2020-12-13  4:56                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-13  5:20                   ` Tim Cross
2020-12-13  9:54                     ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-13 22:59                       ` Tim Cross
2020-12-14  0:32                         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14  0:54                           ` Tim Cross
2020-12-14  4:36                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14  5:45                               ` Tim Cross
2020-12-15  5:44                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-14 10:03                         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-14 14:57                           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14 15:01                             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-14 15:12                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-14 15:52                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-14  0:16                       ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-13  4:56                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-13  8:56                   ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-12-14  5:50                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-14  6:45                     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-12 13:48               ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-12 13:50               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-12 15:37                 ` Tim Cross
2020-12-12 19:54                   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-12 20:46                   ` Stephen Leake
2020-12-12 21:24                     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-12 21:48                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-13  0:39                       ` Tim Cross
2020-12-13  1:28                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-13  5:03                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-13  4:58                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-12 21:06               ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-13  4:58               ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-13  5:27                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-12 19:33             ` Jean Louis
2020-12-12 21:24               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-13  4:59               ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-13  5:03               ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-14 17:38                 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-14 18:49                   ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2020-12-14 22:13                     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-14 19:10                   ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-14 22:17                     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-16  5:32                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-01-02  5:25                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10  4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10  5:03   ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-10  5:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-10  6:39   ` "Open records", "good government principles", "corporate culture" Boruch Baum
2020-12-10  7:27     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-10 14:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-11  6:16     ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-10  6:54 ` non-gnu elpa issue tracking Jean Louis

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