From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is the policy for moving a feature into core or not? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:31:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20190730133102.GB22148@tuxteam.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl" Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="146961"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 15:31:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDt-000c24-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32955 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDr-0001qU-By for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:31:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDb-0001jN-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:31:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDZ-0003QD-LK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:51755) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDY-0003PB-M8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:31:05 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=fl4T7B/iBqkk6oJ3atW3doEykhrT6dcfZWUsj/qDbus=; b=A8Ka/oR6DtKYekOrlTzhLNeLCf9nN8uwzSYAWme4/mG1TVyAbahrf7dDGLcRrRLO2ZkPpjiLTmS5YuU2q2jvGfYROe1JgQV11D0AyOCi2YLvtnhgeGOxObH2kLgViTU0eXYtTvlg2dTvJaRhHtX7D1bRW4v+0zEaVzhNcgYEfxy6RfttOWJ4ek0vDpmgpAmubCiFGR46y7U1LmrRADddf0y4brS/ZfmFzf++B7EdYtOVQyDYj55cmlhLEyczK+/wdXEzfwjY72AJYJMNmjTcaGQBevcy4KvofXws2hvQ5UllzNpvCOSsXjup3SqAb8pEpzd++pelr9pzl2fnRUgFRw==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1hsSDW-0006pr-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:31:02 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121261 Archived-At: --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:58:14PM +0200, ndame wrote: > > Hm. Doing "M-x package-list-packages" and searching there for "kill" yi= elds a=C2=A0 > >=C2=A0few hits, among them: >=20 > 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,=C2=A0 > and if people submitted the necessary papers then they could dump package= s 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 -- tom=C3=A1s --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAl1ARpYACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaUqACfYjSdJOhsegLTs2m7zzgOuFbw h2wAnAggqj2LqsXbe6IKHVt58O8DzjoC =mhtC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oLBj+sq0vYjzfsbl--