From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Merging use-package before Emacs 29, hopefully Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:12:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83bkowwfn0.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25273"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, johnw@gnu.org, relekarpayas@gmail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 24 16:12:47 2022 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 1oyDuA-0006MJ-59 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:12:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyDtX-00071S-Hb; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyDtR-000718-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyDtR-0007SY-3A; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=3Q6FBR4/2ESL+WHBpwr9WJ2UD+ngtZqqiPEkn1DwFkM=; b=kp7m+J4YivffUpWFeKla JPKGHq+OJmWu8HvuKtUP4sJrjEJWBvNkEsa15xyDifVCwX/JoRLuFe70bLzwGdtq0t/oo1TouIcQl QPFDcwiO/25pWNZ0HgQC3Ndcq/c21i/DR6lCCqFaXcCgpJoYkicX6lTaoRuIq3cslk/FK/yRSjHOe Yt2eX79rysoS6L5a79uBPXsKGy54KSx9EDb7ACfNcP7K7zwB0wQKYYhVfinCTXUEacsxuFofjT2l3 2koIKMb8h1vl/d/Hxv/7ylGCqF2hZiZwq6L27wQu6jgu6qZXiWeCFrvOwSGxLq+c+sVucsdEsx72k 5vWFeC0/NB1HKA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oyDtQ-0003YO-I5; Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:12:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Thu, 24 Nov 2022 05:19:25 -0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300439 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 05:19:25 -0800 > Cc: John Wiegley , Eli Zaretskii , Payas Relekar > > I have pushed the current progress on merging use-package to the new > branch scratch/use-package. I based this on João Távora's and Payas > Relekar's work on merging eglot, but adapted it for use-package.[1] Thanks for working on this. > 1. I'm still working on the new use-package.texi manual. It pretty much > amounts to a rewrite, or close to it. If Eli and John are fine with > it, I'm happy to finish up that work after the merge. Otherwise, I'm > not sure I can make it in time for the Emacs 29 merge window. I'll > try my best in any case, of course, but other commitments destroyed > most of my time for focused work in the last week. It's okay to keep working on the manual after the branch point, yes. > > 2. I didn't mark trivial commits with "Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes". > Using the scripts from João and Payas, it will be trivial to add, if > I can get access to a list of the relevant commits. > > - Do we care strongly about this? Yes, we do. > - If yes, do we have a list of commits that need such marking? Or, > equivalently, the authors whose work we don't need assignments for? I hope John can answer that. Truth be told, this should have been taken care of before pushing the scratch branch to the Emacs repository. > 3. The mailmap.txt file may or may not need looking over. For example, > I'm not sure how important it is that the emails line up with the > copyright assignments file. It is pretty important, so if there are significant discrepancies, we'd need that incorporated. > 5. I added the files README.md as admin/USE-PACKAGE.README and NEWS.md > as etc/USE-PACKAGE-NEWS. We might want to just skip these files > though, as they don't add much. They are available in the old > repository if anyone should need to take a look at them. Why do we need the README? Ideally, it should be incorporated into the manual, and then discarded. As for USE-PACKAGE.NEWS, unless we are going to keep updating it, I would omit it as well. If you "git rm" it, it will be in Git history if someone needs it. Alternatively, leave that file as NEWS.OLD under lisp/use-package/.