From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:34:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86r1m5loph.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvk0ryzbsa.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
On Wed 27 Jan 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> So one way to eliminate the ballast is to split Gnu ELPA into one
>> repository per package; then git submodule will only download the
>> repository for that package.
>
> There's a strong technical reason why `elpa.git` and `nongnu.git` are
> single repositories: Savannah does not let us create new repositories
> nor change their default branch, nor setup/change the commit-diffs for
> them. Every time such a thing needs to happen, we have to ask
> a sysadmin to do it for us.
Using technical means to work around a social/political problem usually
results in later difficulties.
AndyM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-28 3:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 1:41 policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball Stephen Leake
2021-01-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-22 10:56 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-22 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-22 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-21 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-23 2:50 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-23 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 16:26 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 21:49 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-25 19:38 ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-25 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 20:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 1:04 ` Andy Moreton
2021-01-26 2:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 14:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 17:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28 0:15 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-28 2:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-27 14:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-27 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 18:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 18:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-27 14:21 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-27 14:48 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:42 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-23 9:27 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-23 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 2:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-24 16:27 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 17:30 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:10 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 20:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-25 22:00 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-26 1:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 15:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-27 14:37 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28 0:10 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-28 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 19:30 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-25 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-27 14:31 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28 3:34 ` Andy Moreton [this message]
2021-01-27 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-29 17:47 ` Phillip Lord
2021-02-01 8:45 ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-01 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 22:09 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-25 19:14 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 11:10 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-27 14:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28 0:05 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 20:19 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 2:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
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