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: Splitting GNU ELPA Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <83imgt9uk8.fsf@gnu.org> <83imgs81dt.fsf@gnu.org> 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="47722"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 20 06:02:21 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 1jbFvw-000CK3-Ms for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 06:02:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46486 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvv-0002FQ-OU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:02:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46122) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvG-0000jt-6q for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFvF-0004j4-GP; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jbFuz-0001ph-CC; Wed, 20 May 2020 00:01:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83imgs81dt.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 19 May 2020 17:06:54 +0300) 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:251010 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. ]]] > A more concrete recommendation would be to examine each proposed > package more closely and try to decide whether we'd like to have that > in Emacs or "close by", or just offer it for download to those who are > interested (a.k.a. "just distribute"). This should include some > meaningful discussion with arguments on both directions, and hopefully > some consensus about the decision. > We could also ask the package developer to state their POV on these > matters, and their plans for further development and maintenance. It seems good to me. Do you suggest making a list of questions and sending that to each developer, or would you rather just talk with them without a preplanned list? -- 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)