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: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:58:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr> <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> <87bnazpb8n.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447452087 12608 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2015 22:01:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 22:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 23:01:14 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 1ZxMP3-0002Km-8u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 23:01:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55434 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMP3-0002AE-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMOz-0002A1-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMOv-0000OC-Ks for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:01:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMMt-0007dG-3X; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZxMMs-0003sa-ET; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:58:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bnazpb8n.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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:194415 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. ]]] > MELPA is also *easier* to contribute to. Aside from copyright issues, it > involves writing something that looks like lisp, testing on your local > fork, then a PR. What is a PR? > With GNU ELPA, it involves some fairly obscure git cleverness. GNU ELPA > could be made easier by allowing recipes, and by accepting PRs. This > avoids the necessity to have commit access to GNU ELPA to contribute. Maybe we should do this (but I don't know what a PR is). -- 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.