From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org packages in an Emacs checkout Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8762sa9770.fsf@gmx.de> <87pqqibr30.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <877hcp1hok.fsf@kslab.red-bean.com> <87d3mhcmyl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd09c5bw.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87sjvcqidp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ei6wayyh.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87zkpj986x.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298666720 5753 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2011 20:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 21:45:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt4XK-0002H8-A8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:45:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pt4XC-0001Il-Jy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48328 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pt4Vz-0000on-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt4Vw-0003UY-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:58901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt4Vw-0003US-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58427) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pt4Vv-0007pK-K0; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:47 -0500 X-Spook: War on Terrorism kilo class Vince Foster assassination X-Ran: vv,Gs"F!`|N\B{[|\Cjh}+8U+=Qu,M3:?WIh+k};tcR:LE2N=[G.9t;AgV^wWi{;@!<:'l X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:136533 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov wrote: > OK. Which ones of: > > nt/INSTALL > doc/emacs/maintaining.texi > doc/emacs/anti.texi > doc/misc/faq.texi > admin/notes/bzr > admin/notes/bugtracker > admin/bzrmerge.el > INSTALL > INSTALL.BZR > etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT > etc/CONTRIBUTE > > should I do (trying to avoid unnecessary modifications)? Several of those suggestions make no sense (perhaps I missed the sarcasm). I would say for sure mention elpa.gnu.org in: doc/misc/faq.texi etc/MORE.STUFF etc/NEWS (already a brief mention I see) and at some point closer to the release in the Emacs manual. I wouldn't mention the bzr branch in any of those places, because that detail is not relevant to users. They should just go through elpa.gnu.org. Is there any reason users need to know about the bzr branch at all? It could be mentioned in a note on http://elpa.gnu.org. As to documenting the existence of the elpa branch for developers, I don't know what there is to say, but I think admin/notes/elpa is the right place. But see what others think since I haven't thought about this much.