From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:19:37 +0000 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="1622"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Yuan Fu , Emacs developers To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 22:20:30 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 1jRiKk-0000KT-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRiKj-0002ZC-K7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:20:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRiK5-0001qV-Gj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:19:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRiK3-0000yD-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40140.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.140]:63079) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRiK3-0000sq-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:19:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587673184; bh=lmfscbf7re0p9RdmbA7PYIwtOSDKp5TMBVCU4Io4tbw=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=jd6EelMC7T8wzepLDrFr8L+mwC/mX0fG2xaKHutsoA0/mlhOx5MrRG3Hnsv7fdM1W 4/8eO2mY0zrRNLaD8VFo+cCncm2LkwCERMTwOFJdSPweX5dOLUoXcDNPUtZzME/dr8 7034Rbu8uyb7fzv5bbOOZrmC2eIO6l1/ACo49jzY= In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.140; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40140.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/23 16:19:44 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.140 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:247628 Archived-At: > > For this reason, while some GNU ELPA package maintainers can "just push" > as they see fit, as it should be, others haven't yet been granted this > right. This is a problem which we should solve, A simple solution which occurs to me that a script which has the necessary permissions could pull the changes to its local repo and push from there to ELPA. (This implies that the author pushes his changes to a public place like GitHub, so the script can pull them from there.) The script pulls the changes from the external repo when a certain dedicate= d file in the repo (e.g. ELPA.pull) changes. The author changes this file when he wants to authorize a new pull (wants to do a release to ELPA). The script can discover the changed trigger file either by regularly checki= ng the external repos of the ELPA packages which follow this protocol, or if i= t's too much work then the author can send a mail to a dedicated mail address which triggers the pull of his repo (e.g. sends a mail to elpapull@gnu.org with the subject .