From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:27:59 +0900 Message-ID: <41B0D380-C973-46DA-B355-A64B0F227901@traduction-libre.org> References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.4 \(3608.80.23.2.2\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="21624"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: Emacs developers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 16:29:41 2020 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 1jSLoL-0005X8-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:29:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38226 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSLoK-0001t1-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41598) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSLmu-0000FK-Nv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSLmt-0000MM-RQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:55001) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSLmt-0000F3-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 10:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.13] (pl12634.ag0304.nttpc.ne.jp [128.53.235.90]) (Authenticated sender: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6E593100005 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:28:04 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.80.23.2.2) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.231; envelope-from=jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org; helo=relay11.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/25 10:28:07 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.178.231 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:247785 Archived-At: > On Apr 24, 2020, at 5:52, Stefan Monnier = wrote: >=20 >> Is there an actual effort too seek out prospective packages and ask = the >> code owners to include it in emacs? >=20 > Yes. I'd say at least half of the packages we currently have in GNU > ELPA are there because we went out and tried to get the authors to > contribute their package to GNU ELPA. I seem to remember that in the summer of 2017 and after, Mats Lidell and = I, led by Jonas Bernoulli did something very similar for packages hosted = on emacsmirror, after a discussion here about copyright assignments and = licenses. > I welcome help in doing that work, BTW. If you have clear instructions, I could help. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune