From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="31658"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers To: ndame Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 23 22:56:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jRitO-00087x-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 22:56:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41750 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRitN-000251-5L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:56:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRipU-0004u4-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRipQ-00045d-2I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:37912) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRipP-00042J-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:11 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id A879C100F40; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id D5080100B4F; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:07 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1587675127; bh=ifERf4oq9ofN1LzkXpIw6vFcxQmH3bE+TvVO8ca0uWo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=COupEV3XqqpVKnKUSk8sRY+aMsBUFw+O50AvewPW8auw9GwHH05DTRueorpD6aEPk UuxzSwJXc8A5IMfeKSuNKtkhwFeqH14VZUdpSGmUjGuy/rYzj3TTaxE0Awp6nLutNa A0kgoonX0DptxfxgMqoK1aCxju8w/Mou2M8Z6K4BBRscIoBSr6HhcJ4/yTCeCfeYTW CgA01EsGDfaJxQl5CRC4Idp485se0skDZZ5oXqcIzULbacl21OpXPTyd53aX8mX3dc gZWmmJUWQZKL0wR/FgXEr33uWsmabOE8uR6FNb6DbtupuIwANCZV8PwxP2vHeEolBv DjhxRdh4B+bpg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.241.114]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A254012033E; Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:52:07 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> (ndame@protonmail.com's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:47:00 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/23 16:03:03 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247633 Archived-At: > Is there an actual effort too seek out prospective packages and ask the > code owners to include it in emacs? Yes. I'd say at least half of the packages we currently have in GNU ELPA are there because we went out and tried to get the authors to contribute their package to GNU ELPA. I welcome help in doing that work, BTW. Stefan