From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87imho8bhx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="32525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, ndame@protonmail.com To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 05:26:40 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXwF-0008NI-LE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:26:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51290 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXwE-0000nr-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvR-00085h-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvR-0007yB-7F; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jSXvQ-0001uH-1g; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:25:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87imho8bhx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (message from Eric Abrahamsen on Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:55:54 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247817 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. ]]] > > It is ok to do that, assuming the other repo is managed appropriately, > > and your method could do it. Other methods could give equivalent > > results. We could use whichever method is most convenient. > > > > The crucial thing is that the repo where the package is really maintained > > be managed carefully in regard to who can commit changes. > And this was ultimately Stefan's concern, and the reason why my > suggestion is probably no-go. But no matter! I think your suggestion has potential. We could set up the package's own repo ourselves and manage it in the right way. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)