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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Urgrep: New ELPA submission (eventually)
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:22:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1qn59ip3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6613829-042d-b934-8ee2-516f8cfff8cf@gmail.com> (Jim Porter's message of "Sat, 4 Feb 2023 11:44:12 -0800")

> First, assigning copyright of Urgrep to the FSF (so that it can go in GNU
> ELPA) is just a matter of updating the copyright field in the code, right?
> Do I need to fill out any paperwork or anything too?

You basically need to "state" that you consider that code to be covered
by your existing Emacs assignment.  We usually consider that changing
the copyright line in the files is a valid way to make this statement.

> Second, my usual process for versioning is that I'll release a version like
> "1.0" by updating the "Version:" field and tagging it. Then, in the next
> commit, I update the "Version:" field to something like "2.0-snapshot". So
> in this case, I'd expect GNU ELPA to give users version 1.0, and GNU
> ELPA-devel to give users the latest 2.0-snapshot version. Does ELPA
> understand that?

Yes.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-04 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-12  4:18 [RFC] Urgrep: New ELPA submission (eventually) Jim Porter
2022-09-12 12:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-14  4:52   ` Jim Porter
2023-02-04 17:12     ` Ergus
2023-02-04 19:44       ` Jim Porter
2023-02-04 21:37         ` Ergus
2023-02-04 22:22         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-09-12  4:56 Jim Porter
2022-09-12  9:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-12 17:05   ` Jim Porter
2022-09-12 11:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-12 18:00   ` Jim Porter

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