From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RFC: Adding BBDB to Emacs core Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:56:33 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87lgdpphmm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87vacqcy89.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523940933 32631 195.159.176.226 (17 Apr 2018 04:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 04:55:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: Joshua Branson , Bozhidar Batsov , emacs-devel To: Roland Winkler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 17 06:55:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f8IeN-0008Le-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:55:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8IgT-0005Q1-Mg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8Ifl-0005Oy-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8Ifj-00080y-7L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8IfZ-0006QN-Tb; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:40747) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f8IfX-00059b-R2; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:40 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E81A421B0A; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:38 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8781CE4120; Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:56:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87vacqcy89.fsf@gnu.org> (Roland Winkler's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:23:34 -0500") Mail-Followup-To: Roland Winkler , Bozhidar Batsov , Joshua Branson , emacs-devel X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:224699 Archived-At: >>>>> "RW" == Roland Winkler writes: RW> Certainly, this is a non-ideal approach. I am wondering: Could it make RW> sense to have a separate infrastructure like "ELPA-devel" for the on-going RW> development of ELPA packages, where adventurous users find the very latest RW> code similar to the master branch of core Emacs. On the other hand, ELPA RW> becomes the place for stable versions of these packages. My terminology RW> "separate infrastructure" is intentionally vague, because I do not yet RW> have a clear idea how this can be implemented efficiently. Having an "-unstable" flavor of the package repository seems to be de rigeur these days. I wonder if it would lead to any maintenance headaches. But it would certainly improve ELPA's standing as a place both for development, and distribution. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2