From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Package proposal: greader, an audio emacs reader for blind and dislexic people Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:24:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tvhpx0fr.fsf@web.de> <87ftt9wpfh.fsf@web.de> <87k1if6tsc.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="178439"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 05 00:33:12 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnjh-000kGO-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:33:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnjg-0003QY-AM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52314) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnbS-0005ik-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnbS-0004l2-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36548 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnbQ-0004gi-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqnbJ-000aAL-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:24:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:WJFzef7qheY1y0pkQxIzpio6h6o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232976 Archived-At: >> One of the first things you will need to do is move your source repo >> to a 'free' (GNU approved) repository hosting service - github.com is >> not. > AFAIK there is no such requirement. Yes and no: technically, all GNU ELPA packages are hosted in the elpa.git repository. But for many packages, it's just a mirror, indeed. > Lots of packages in Gnu Elpa are synchronized from github - see > "externals-list". Note also that the synchronization is 100% manual: someone needs to "git push" the new data to elpa.git. Stefan