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: NonGNU ELPA and release frequency Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:16:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83eelnhfp7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8lm0yhtuul6tmc.fsf@iki.fi> <83sga4ggms.fsf@gnu.org> <20201024120625.GA24912@stw1.rcdrun.com> <83k0vfhjiu.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16689"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 24 16:19:02 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 1kWKNq-0004BH-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:19:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57458 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWKNp-0002OC-Nq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34788) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWKLm-00013j-Pd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47220) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWKLm-0002r5-Bm; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4373 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWKLf-0007qM-A9; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:16:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:12:13 +0300) 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:258417 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:12:13 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: rms@gnu.org, ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > > Would you like to volunteer to do some or all of this? > > > > > > I am ready. > > > > Thank you; please go ahead. > > Tell me next steps. You had it all in your list of the tasks to be done, I think. Just pick up one of them, preferably near the beginning, and start working on it. When it's done, continue to the next one in the list. We are here to help if you have questions. > On my side I am already making my personal review of packages and > making list of those wrapping non-free packages, and sorting them, > looking inside, compiling and looking which are useful. I will come up > with my list soon. > > So far there is about 20 that are made for non-free software or that > would drive users to non-free, but I have just started reviewing it. Thanks, but I think the steps that set up the infrastructure should come first. We already have a few packages we know we'd like to have there, so once the repository is ready, it won't be left empty for long.