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: GNU ELPA package discoverability Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 23:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <4e937898-ae46-710a-cbca-e452a1156fa1@yandex.ru> <2e630dc7-ba1d-e4c9-74b3-4da976db1e82@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="118863"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 22 05:13:13 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 1jby7U-000Upd-Ka for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 May 2020 05:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49550 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jby7T-0003Rg-Jd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 23:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50822) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jby66-0001U7-SX for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 May 2020 23:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jby66-0004yZ-Hd; Thu, 21 May 2020 23:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jby65-00086p-BP; Thu, 21 May 2020 23:11:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Tim Cross on Thu, 21 May 2020 16:03:25 +1000) 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:251196 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. ]]] > Clarify what ELPA is for, how it is managed and what the process is to get > a package into ELPA, then streamline this process and provide an efficient > workflow for package maintenance and many may begin to use ELPA more and > rely on MELPA less. Even more importantly, ELPA might become the definitive > archive for good quality, stable and GPL compliant Emacs packages. We are looking at how to do this, within the limits of our basic goals. I'm thinking about making a second ELPA which won't require copyright assignment. -- 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)