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 23:19:51 -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> <83lflevju7.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="53165"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 05:20:34 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 1jdmcL-000Dhv-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 27 May 2020 05:20:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47206 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdmcK-0006Ef-R3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 23:20:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47044) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdmbk-0005JX-Pt for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2020 23:19:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58505) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jdmbk-0001Zd-Gp; Tue, 26 May 2020 23:19:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jdmbf-0006sN-83; Tue, 26 May 2020 23:19:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Tim Cross on Wed, 27 May 2020 11:06:37 +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:251491 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. ]]] > Except it isn't. There is nothing in the README about how to obtain > write/push rights to the repository or that it is the same rights as you > need to add code to the Emacs repository. It also states that if you don't > have the necessary rights, someone will do it all for you, but with no > indication on how to find that someone or provide them with the code. In a > single file package, I guess sending the file to emacs-devel might be > sufficient, but for larger projects that won't work. Relying on 'someone' > to do the work is a vague proposition and will often result in a rather > slow process. I agree that we should document how to participate in developing packages in ELPA. But this is a long term need, not an urgent need. Since we are considering a big change in how people would do that, why document the current system? We may as well change it, get the new system working well, and document that one. -- 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)