From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [elpa] chess.el: Req. for comment/review: Info manual Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <874mzqszid.fsf@fx.delysid.org> <83vbrytft7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1403114980 21666 80.91.229.3 (18 Jun 2014 18:09:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mario Lang , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 18 20:09:32 2014 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 1WxKIc-0007Gg-Ap for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:09:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKIb-0002hW-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKIS-0002eM-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKIK-0002qi-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:13063) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WxKIC-0002pe-DN; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:04 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASjOIVhgWqDTCE X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASjOIVhgWqDTCE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="67731310" Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([75.119.224.253]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 18 Jun 2014 14:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4D73C6608C; Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:09:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83vbrytft7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2014 18:09:40 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:172508 Archived-At: > I'm not sure how to proceed with this: the package is maintained > outside of elpa, and I probably don't have write access there. AFAIK no, emacs-chess's upstream is now the "externals/chess" branch of elpa on savannah. > OTOH, committing the changes to savannah doesn't sound right, since > README says that local changes to externals should be kept to > a minimum. We should always feel free to install corrections into `elpa'. It's the maintainer's responsability to then integrate them upstream (in case there is another upstream). Of course, if it's not just a plain correction, you might like to get the maintainer's agreement first. Stefan