From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Sainty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: gnu.org-hosted external repositories for GNU ELPA packages? Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 00:45:35 +1200 Message-ID: <57517BEF.10408@orcon.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464959586 499 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2016 13:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:13:06 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 15:12:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b8ouD-00018V-S8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:12:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8ou4-0006Lj-Gv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:12:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8otD-0006IF-SI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8ot9-0001tH-LO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:11:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [219.88.242.52] (port=35537 helo=mail.orcon.net.nz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8ot9-0001r6-4p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.20.100] (host-203-94-60-222.xdsl.kinect.net.nz [203.94.60.222] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.orcon.net.nz (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id u53CjZjo000425 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2016 00:45:36 +1200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0: No Bayes scoring rules defined, tokens from: outbound) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=203.94.60.222; country=NZ; region=Auckland; city=Auckland; latitude=-36.8667; longitude=174.7667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-36.8667,174.7667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: base:outbound X-Canit-Stats-ID: 02R2cJAeA - 47ed01c1e22a - 20160604 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 219.88.242.52 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204180 Archived-At: I've written some libraries that I'd like to propose as additions to GNU ELPA (or otherwise contribute to GNU Emacs). https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DelightedModes https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SoLong https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SqlUpcase (and other projects which are in rather less-functional states.) My preference would be to maintain them as external git repositories so that I can push work-in-progress without bothering the emacs-devel list, and only notify emacs-devel once I was happy for a new version to be looked at. I would prefer not to have to use some other git host, however. It would be nice if the upstream repositories were hosted at gnu.org. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/README does discuss submodules and external repositories, but doesn't make any suggestion with respect to a gnu.org hosted solution. It would be helpful if this scenario was covered. Is the sensible thing to register the projects at https://savannah.gnu.org/register/ ? I can see a couple of relevant examples in the externals listing: ("auctex" :external "git://git.sv.gnu.org/auctex.git") ("enwc" :subtree "bzr::bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/enwc/trunk") thanks, -Phil