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: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 23:38:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <266155d4-f9c0-8ed3-8df5-32feea171076@yandex.ru> 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="99987"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, joaotavora@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 05:39:41 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 1jV5Tg-000PvT-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 May 2020 05:39:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Tf-0006kX-Th for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5T2-0005JS-6K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:39:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44570) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5T1-0007Vw-FD; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jV5Sy-0000iQ-DQ; Sat, 02 May 2020 23:38:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 2 May 2020 02:07:35 +0200) 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:248614 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. ]]] > We've recently > discussed that our copy dash.el is out of sync with recent > development, and we have coffee-mode.el before that. Would someone with good social skills like to ask the developers of dash to move their development into GNU ELPA, or ask why they have not done so? I am sure they can see the advantage of having their latest version available through Emacs. > Is there something we could do to avoid such a situation before it > arises? To my mind, we really need package authors to push > (figuratively speaking) their changes to us, rather than us having to > pull their changes. Could we make explicit arrangements with the package developers, about continued maintainance of the package within GNU ELPA, as part of arranging to include the package in GNU ELPA? Do we already do this? -- 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)