From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Danjou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ELPA policy Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:40:39 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289835666 2132 80.91.229.12 (15 Nov 2010 15:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:41:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 15 16:41:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PI1Ax-0008Rm-2s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI1Aw-0005W9-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45839 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PI1Al-0005TH-MC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:40:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI1Ah-0008Aw-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from coquelicot-s.easter-eggs.com ([213.215.37.94]:53883) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PI1Ah-00089T-BJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from cigue.easter-eggs.fr (cigue.easter-eggs.fr [10.0.0.33]) by rose.easter-eggs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26A7B14029 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:40:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from jdanjou by cigue.easter-eggs.fr with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PI1Ad-0003t0-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:40:39 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132634 Archived-At: Hi, This topic has been recently brought by Lars, Ted and me on the gnus mailing list. I've been asked to move this discussion here for clarification. I am currently worried by the Emacs ELPA archive and what will be that policy. As Lars pointed out, until now, packages have been added over the years into Emacs trunk, maintained by a extended set of skilled hands, assuring good quality in (almost :-)) every place of every packages furnished with Emacs. Now, with the introduction of ELPA I'm worried about a lot of things. - Who will be able to upload to ELPA? - Who will fix the packages' bugs? - Who will assure there's no regression for Emacs 24.1 user when people will starts uploading packages using 24.2 only function? - Who will assure there's no regression at all? - Who will assure there's no really bad things uploaded? - Will all new packages go to ELPA, or with some still go to Emacs trunk? And if some can go to the trunk, upon which rules? - Will all/most of the current packages be moved to ELPA? There's probably a lot more question outstanding. I've the feeling ELPA is adding a second class citizenship for packages, and I really do not like that, at least in its current form. --=20 Julien Danjou // =E1=90=B0 http://julien.danjou.info