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: ELPA policy Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0c88192c-3c33-46ed-95cb-b4c6928016e3@default> <83zhaij4qn.fsf@gnu.org> <835zd6ihns.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7wphblf.fsf@gnu.org> <875zd57e7e.fsf@randomsample> <837dxlh77o.fsf@gnu.org> <871rnt7cbd.fsf@randomsample> <834ksph5ss.fsf@gnu.org> <87wo5l5whg.fsf@randomsample> <831rnth29c.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgg95scy.fsf@randomsample> <83r1vtflst.fsf@gnu.org> <87o8qx5rlp.fsf@randomsample> 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="12444"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Engster Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 04:30:38 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 1jXbjh-00037m-Ie for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 04:30:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46532 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbjg-0002y7-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbio-0000yK-Hh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35937) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbin-0007pX-Po; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXbim-00054Z-JT; Sat, 09 May 2020 22:29:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o8qx5rlp.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Sat, 09 May 2020 12:29:22 +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:249617 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. ]]] > Indeed, one possibility would be to simply close GNU ELPA for everything > but core or maybe-in-the-future-core packages. Is that what you're > proposing? I think that is unnecessarily strict. It presumes that when adding a package to GNU ELPA we always know, already, whether we will ever want to put it in the core. I expect there are lots of cases where that decision will depend on circumstances. -- 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)