Re: Incorporate package macrostep into Emacs or NonGNU ELPA?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Hi Jeremy,

> Which brings us to the other point suggested by Jonas - moving
> development & maintenance of macrostep to NonGNU ELPA (on Savannah)
> itself and archiving the previous fork.

Not sure what you mean by "previous fork".
[ BTW, I only now notice that the "upstream" is called "emacsorphanage".  ]

We can set the upstream to nil and change the headers to say that
development takes place directly in `nongnu.git`, but I'm not sure it's
really an improvement over the status quo.

> Jonathan Oddie has kindly proposed to sign the FSF paperwork once he
> receives it.

Not sure if I understand correctly.  Is he already in the process of
signing the paperwork, or is he waiting for someone to send him the form
for that (in which case, I'd be happy to send it to him)?

> Given that macrostep is useful for Emacs Lisp macro development, would
> there be interest to include in Emacs core?

I don't have a strong opinion either way.

> If so I can volunteer to reach out to other recent contributors, beyond
> the original author, for the same purpose?

That would be awesome.

    % git log elpa/macrostep | grep Author: | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 Author: Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang56@gmail.com>
      1 Author: duianto <duianto@users.noreply.github.com>
      1 Author: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
      1 Author: Jonathan Oddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>
      1 Author: Torbjörn Norinder <torbjorn@genunix.se>
      2 Author: Fice T <fice-t@protonmail.com>
      2 Author: Jon Oddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>
      2 Author: Luís Borges de Oliveira <lbo@siscog.pt>
      2 Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
      3 Author: George Kettleborough <g.kettleborough@member.fsf.org>
      4 Author: Jonathan Oddie <j.j.oddie@gmail.com>
      4 Author: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
     12 Author: Luís Oliveira <loliveira@common-lisp.net>
     13 Author: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
     80 Author: joddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>

Of those, Luís Oliveira has signed some paperwork but not for Emacs, and
Fice, Torbjörn, and "duianto" don't appear at all in the
`copyright.list` so we'll need to either ask them to sign the paperwork,
or look at their contributions (to see if they're small enough or have
been replaced since).


        Stefan