Re: Maintenance of cobol-mode.el on ELPA

[kristofer@hjelmtorp.se]

> On 05/05/2024 4:10 PM CEST Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> kristofer@hjelmtorp.se writes:
> 
> >> On 05/03/2024 7:42 AM CEST Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >>  
> >> kristofer@hjelmtorp.se writes:
> >> 
> >> > Greetings Emacs maintainers.
> >> >
> >> > I noticed in the last update to the Elpa package; cobol-mode.el,
> >> > that is now orphaned and that you are looking for someone to step
> >> > up and maintain it.
> >> >
> >> > I would be willing to take over that role if you would let me. I
> >> > work with COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL) in my in daily work and use
> >> > Emacs
> >> > together with cobol-mode.el to do it. My emacs-lisp skills are
> >> > mediocre at best but I will do my best to fix bugs and keep it
> >> > working. But my ambition is to work on the missing features listed in
> >> > the package, update it to include changes in the COBOL standards,
> >> > improve the indentation and maybe in the future work on a tree-sitter
> >> > implementation.
> >> 
> >> That sounds great!
> >> 
> >> > I do have very little knowledge about how a Elpa package like this is
> >> > usually developed and how the commit process works so any information
> >> > and tips are welcomed.
> >> 
> >> Currently the repository is part of elpa.git itself, but if someone else
> >> were to take over maintenance, we could switch it to mirroring some
> >> external repository that you would create.  You can use any Git forge
> >> you like (I'd personally recommend Codeberg or Sourcehut).
> >> 
> >> Any changes you push to that repository will automatically be
> >> synchronised upstream.  To release a new package, you just have to bump
> >> the ";; Version: ..." header at the top of the file.
> >> 
> >> How does that sound like to you?
> >> 
> >
> > That sounds great!
> > I'm in the process of setting up a repository on Sourcehut. I will let
> > you know when it's ready!
> >
> > I guess I just take the files from Elpa (just "cobol.el" from what I
> > can see) and commit it to my new repo?
> 
> I think it would be better if you preserved the history by basing your
> modifications on the branch in elpa.git:
> 
>   git clone -b externals/cobol-mode https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git
> 
> and then pushing that to SourceHut.
> 

Thanks for the instructions!

I have created a new repository not at sourcehut; https://git.sr.ht/~hjelmtech/cobol-mode, and made one commit to change the maintainer. 

Does it look good, or should I change something?

> >
> >> > I have recently signed and sent in my FSF papers.
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards
> >> > Kristofer Hjelmtorp
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 	Philip Kaludercic on peregrine
> 
> -- 
> 	Philip Kaludercic on icterid