Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

On 1/29/24 18:08, Chris Van Dusen wrote:

>> PS: I personally feel that by the time a package author presents a well-written and fairly complete package for inclusion into ELPA, it is too late to make the argument that they should have instead contributed that functionality to a built-in package.  If you can convince them earlier in the process, of course, but it certainly adds to the outside impression that ELPA is a gauntlet that must be run, which I think all agree is not desired.
> 
> I’m not sure I follow. Most of the time package authors don’t ssy anything until they want to publish the package, so how can the maintainers suggest to them to contribute to  an existing package?
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> An alternative would be for potential package authors to post to emacs-devel, stating that they would like to see feature foo in package bar.  If it turns out that it is not feasible to implement the feature, then sure, a new package can be created.

Please don't forget the possibility that the author has already 
considered and rejected the idea to modify an existing library.  I 
reached this decision over 3 years ago, before I started working on 
burly.el, which has led me to finally develop activities.el.  Sometimes 
it is best to start with a fresh perspective, rather than trying to 
shoehorn ideas into an existing framework.