I don't have anything to say about the process of moving it into the core,
but it's fine with me if you all decide to do that. I don't have much time
these days to contribute, however.

Justin

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 9:47 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> > That's easy; there is a lisp/erc directory in the master emacs git
> > repository. Apparently someone syncs the code between there and ELPA.
>
> Not really: the GNU ELPA packages are generated from code kept in the
> `elpa.git` repository, but it can also use the code in Emacs itself
> (i.e. in the `master` branch of the `emacs.git` repository), which is
> what happens for ERC, Python, and a few more, whose "upstream" is
> Emacs's own repository.
>
> > There are also "core" ELPA packages; the code resides in the emacs
> > master repository, but the ELPA server also packages it. I think the
> > only examples of those are single-file, but it should work for
> > multi-file as well.
>
> It's not limited to single-file packages.
> The ERC package is one of those.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>