From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: ELPA policy Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:58:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr>> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru>> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> > <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> > <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> > <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org>> > NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447271936 19353 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 19:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 11 20:58:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwbXP-0003jO-Vv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:58:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42701 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwbXP-0003Qc-UN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:58:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwbXA-0003QM-3M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwbX6-0001G2-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:23347) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwbX6-0001Fx-Mh; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:58:16 -0500 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id tABJwBiV005316 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:58:11 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tABJwAYG011428 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:58:10 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0012.oracle.com (abhmp0012.oracle.com [141.146.116.18]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id tABJwAru031206; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:58:10 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194126 Archived-At: > This is a legitimate complaint, Drew. One of the things I want to avoid > with ELPA is making it harder for people to contribute to than other > alternatives. >=20 > Since pulling in data from the Web indiscriminately is not possible for > this project (we have to make sure we're not unwittingly including code w= ithout > a proper copyright assignment), perhaps we need as an "integrator": someo= ne > willing to guide the update of ELPA from various sources on the Web, > keeping an eye out for changes that might affect copyright. I'm glad to hear that; all of it. And thanks for replying. > It wouldn't be too hard to setup a process that updates a local clone of > ELPA with all your latest versions from GitHub and EmacsWiki, and then to= check > over a diff of those changes before pushing them to ELPA. One might even > suggest that you could do this yourself, as part of your own release work= . > Would that be something you'd find worth doing? I don't want to develop anything like that; sorry. I don't want to fiddle with a local GIT clone. I would be willing to identify versions of my libraries to be pulled at specific times ("releases") from the wiki (or from MELPA) to be put (updated) in GNU ELPA. I doubt that my case is typical, however. I'm not saying that Emacs Dev needs to cater to such a case. I'm just explaining that I update my libraries locally, without GIT etc., and I upload updates to the wiki. They are automatically pulled to MELPA. What do I need to know, currently? Only how to write some Lisp (a library) and how to copy and paste it into a Web page. Simple. Maybe too simple to accommodate by Emacs Dev.