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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving documentation of Org Mode integration into Emacs.
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:17:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r19m5ksl.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lezu9tv1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:48:02 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> I think we should explain the issue concisely, and then provide
> specific instructions.  This text is IMO enough for the first part:
>
>   +Sometimes a package that ships as part of GNU Emacs is maintained as a
>   +separate project, with its own upstream repository, its own maintainer
>   +group, its own development conventions, etc.  The upstream project's
>   +code is periodically merged into Emacs (exactly when and how such
>   +merges happen depends on the package).
>   +
>   +So when you are making a contribution -- such as fixing a bug or
>   +proposing an enhancement -- to one of these externally maintained
>   +packages, you often need to deal with that package at its upstream
>   +source.
>
> Following that, we should provide a full, exhaustive list of all such
> packages in Emacs core, each one with a corresponding URL (mailing
> list, upstream repository with an issue tracker, etc.).  It might be a
> good idea to have this list on a separate file, perhaps in etc/, and
> only have CONTRIBUTE point to that file.

We have already admin/MAINTAINERS, which could easily be extended for
this. I, for example, am mentioned there as responsible for
Tramp. Adding the Tramp relevant URLs would be easy, and so for all
other external maintained packages.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-05 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-04 21:14 Improving documentation of Org Mode integration into Emacs Karl Fogel
2021-12-04 21:18 ` Karl Fogel
2021-12-04 22:09 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-05  5:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-05  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03  5:05   ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-03  5:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-05  3:09       ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-05 13:48         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-05 14:17           ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2022-01-05 14:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-06 12:40               ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-06 13:58                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-07 10:41                   ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-01-09 22:34           ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-10  8:46             ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-10  9:03               ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-10  9:13                 ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-10  9:17                   ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-10 11:01                   ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-10 16:10                     ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-10  9:06               ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-10  9:24                 ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-10 16:20                   ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-10 18:24                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-11  7:49                       ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-10 18:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-10 19:08               ` Karl Fogel
2022-01-03  8:52     ` Michael Albinus
2022-01-03 12:06     ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-01-03 13:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-01-03 20:45     ` Rudolf Adamkovič

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