Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen@gmail.com>]

> On Jan 29, 2024, at 15:49, JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?

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. 

Chris.