From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:03:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> <86360apxbk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23981"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, boruch_baum@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 13 06:04:24 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 1koJYW-00067E-CD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 06:04:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJYV-0004i5-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJXs-0003s6-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJXs-0003i0-2m; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:03:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1koJXq-0005x5-OX; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:03:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:28:34 +0100) 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:260747 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. ]]] > My main point here is that many of the problems associated with maintenance of > packages, such as issue tracking, are being significantly complicated because > the code is being maintained on a platform which does not meet GNU/FSF > guidelines, philosophy and goals. We don't have any rules about what platform you can host a GNU package on. We never had rules about that. Considering that the packages we put into NonGNU ELPA will not be GNU packages, we could hardly make a rule about where they can be hosted. -- 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)