On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:58:14PM +0200, ndame wrote:
> > Hm. Doing "M-x package-list-packages" and searching there for "kill" yields a 
> > few hits, among them:
> 
> As I said I know about such external packages, and it was only an example.
> I'm just wondering if there is policy of keeping the core (elpa included) small to
> lessen the burden of emacs maintainers, or there is no such policy, 
> and if people submitted the necessary papers then they could dump packages into
> elpa by the thousand.

I'd first try one :-)

No, seriously. On the other side there are people, not machines. But as
far as contributing to GNU Elpa is concerned, [1] and [2] give a pretty
complete overview

Cheers

[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ELPA
[2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/README

-- tomás