From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA policy Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:02:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <8337wfon3f.fsf@gnu.org> <56401834.8080402@yandex.ru> <83ziynma4s.fsf@gnu.org> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447261978 7229 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 17:12:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:12:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 18:12:49 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYww-0005ki-Of for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:12:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41951 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYww-0005xy-GO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYuS-000563-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:12:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYpx-0006eE-6m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57114) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYnI-0005d1-1r; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:02:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwYnH-0004b0-Gu; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:02:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:25:07 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194099 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Another choice would be to say "use MELPA for experimental packages", > but it is already too late for that. If my memory serves, MELPA contains packages we would like to include in Emacs, but we can't get legal papers for them. We are seeking people to write replacements for those, though we wish it were not necessary. We would like developers of future useful packages to want to put their packages into the GNU ELPA. To recommend putting some packages -- whatever they might be -- into MELPA would work against these goals. It would have been a bad approach. > Which raises the question; what is the rationale for moving from MELPA > to Gnu ELPA? If a package is useful to recommend, and we CAN get papers for it, we definitely want to move it to GNU ELPA. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.