From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Add ftable.el to ELPA Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:50:38 +1200 Message-ID: <0f3aa5ba81ee1a8f837600c62dc4ddea@webmail.orcon.net.nz> References: <875ywoibua.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <8735rrkq4p.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9643"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Orcon Webmail To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 03 14:51:56 2021 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 1mAttk-0002Oh-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:51:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44030 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAtti-0006Ca-8G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:51:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAtsc-00053N-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-3.orcon.net.nz ([60.234.4.44]:57885) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAtsb-0001mg-3Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Aug 2021 08:50:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.253.37.70] (port=52552 helo=webmail.orcon.net.nz) by smtp-3.orcon.net.nz with esmtpa (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mAtsU-00031t-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:50:38 +1200 Original-Received: from ip-116-251-162-85.kinect.net.nz ([116.251.162.85]) via [10.253.37.253] by webmail.orcon.net.nz with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:50:38 +1200 In-Reply-To: <8735rrkq4p.fsf@mat.ucm.es> X-Sender: psainty@orcon.net.nz X-GeoIP: -- Received-SPF: pass client-ip=60.234.4.44; envelope-from=psainty@orcon.net.nz; helo=smtp-3.orcon.net.nz X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_20=-0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:271967 Archived-At: On 2021-08-03 18:18, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Sorry for the misunderstanding. I had feeling that it is easier to get > a > package included in MELPA than in ELPA. Maybe I misunderstood > something, > but I thought that it is required that *all* authors need to sign the > FSF copyright papers[1], while for MELPA GPL is sufficient, but maybe I > am wrong. That is one reason why it's good to be in GNU ELPA from the outset. I.e. the thing you see as "easier" about MELPA is the very same thing which might make it hard to subsequently move a package to ELPA; so starting in MELPA might end up being counterproductive.