Re: Elpa question: helping with maintainance of a package in Elpa

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>
>> I am helping Phillip to maintain his pabbrev package. He has given me write
>> access to his repository on GH, and I was able to update the package with few
>> patches It is currently just a "facelift" to skip compiler warnings when
>> installing.
>>
>> Do I understand the information in readme file from Elpa repository correctly: I
>> don't have to do anything special more than just update Phillips repo for the
>> package on GH, since the Cron job uses that URL to update the package
>> automatically if the version is changed? Or do I need to do something more to
>> get the new version into Elpa too?
>
> The cron job will synchronise the mirror with the changes made on the GH
> repository.  Just note that to release a package, you'll have to bump
> the version tag (any commit changing the line with the version number
> should do).
>
>> Since this is just a minor release; not new features, no changes in usability it
>> does not have to have "announcement" on this list, or do you always announce?
>
> No, package updates are usually never announced on emacs-devel.

Thank you very much; this was exactly the info I needed!

I saw it auto-updated last night. Not that I meant to do it; should have
reversed version :-), but it is ok.