John Task <q01@disroot.org> writes:

> [Disclaimer: A similar message was posted here a couple months ago by
>  me.  Sorry if that's an annoyance.  This one is clearer, though.]
>
> Hello.  My name is John Task and I'd like to submit a package to
> NonGNU ELPA.  I'm the author of this program and also (at the time of
> writing) the only contributor to the code.  As far as I can tell,
> everything is in line with the guidances and I plan to keep it that
> way.
>
> The URL of the repository is: https://gitlab.com/q01_code/ett
>
> The description is as follows:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Emacs Time Tracker (or short ETT) is a simple yet powerful time
> tracker for Emacs. Even though it's based on a minimalist plain
> text file, it can show statistics for current day, week, month or
> year, and even compare tags recording for the same item given any
> of these periods.
>
> Advanced features include percentages, graphs and icons.
>
> Clock-in with M-x ett-add-track, go to file with M-x ett-find-file,
> and get report with M-x ett-report. You probably want to bind these
> functions to easy keys.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The corresponding patch would be:
>
> ---
> From 72c7ba2c1ecd375be52b071d25217088e66e9abb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: John Task <q01@disroot.org>
> Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 17:40:44 -0300
> Subject: [PATCH] New package
>
> ---
>  elpa-packages | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
> index c333cc8bb3..385a76264d 100644
> --- a/elpa-packages
> +++ b/elpa-packages
> @@ -154,6 +154,11 @@
>    :readme "README.md"
>    :ignored-files ("doc/demo.gif"))
>  
> + (ett    		:url "https://gitlab.com/q01_code/ett"
> +  :readme ignore
> +  :doc "ett-manual.org"
> +  :ignored-files ("ett-manual.org" "COPYING" "ETT.png" "doclicense.texi"))
> + 
>   (evil			:url "https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil"
>    :ignored-files ("COPYING" "lib" "scripts")
>    :doc "doc/build/texinfo/evil.texi")

I would track the ignored files in a .elpaignore file that would look
something like this

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/ett-pkg.el
/ett-autoloads.el
/ett-manual.org
/COPYING
/ETT.png
/doclicense.texi
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and I have prepared a few comments here: