Re: Update of ELPA package guess-language

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de> writes:

> A while ago I contributed the package guess-language to ELPA [1].  In
> the meantime, I’ve added some improvements in my own git repository
> but it’s not entirely clear to me how I can update the ELPA version.
> From reading the ELPA README [2], it seems that I have to request an
> update on this list every time there is (significant-enough) change in
> my repo (since I wasn’t given push permissions).  Is that really true?
> I’m asking because I rarely see such requests here and because it’s
> not a terribly efficient workflow.  Is there no way that ELPA can
> automatically pull changes from the original repository?

It should be possible, some package specifications (see elpa-packages)
are given the :auto-sync attribute, but I am not sure what the
conditions are for a package to be granted this status.

If you want to, I can update the package for now. The only question is
whether or not everyone with a significant contribution has signed the
copyright assignment to the FSF.

>   Titus
>
> [1] https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/guess-language.html
> [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/README
>
>

-- 
	Philip Kaludercic