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: Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:02 -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> <83blmdxus4.fsf@gnu.org> <831rn8vy6o.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="49377"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 06:16:09 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 1jdR0b-000CjV-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 06:16:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59398 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdR0a-0000xR-2t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 00:16:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51760) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdQzf-0008E7-DN for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdQzf-00044j-0W; Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jdQzW-0002uR-QZ; Tue, 26 May 2020 00:15:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <831rn8vy6o.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 25 May 2020 18:20:15 +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:251424 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. ]]] > So basically what's missing is the write access issue. That should be > a single sentence: we don't have ELPA write access, only access to the > entire Emacs repository, so they need to request membership in the > Emacs project. That's how it is now, but we could change it. For instance, we could make a Savannah project for each package in GNU ELPA, give access to the Emacs maintainers plus the developers of the package, and make releases of GNU ELPA by collecting all those packages. Would that be better? -- 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)