Re: GNU ELPA; mw 0.1: modular MediaWiki interface for Emacs

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>]

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:

>>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>  >> I hope to polish these over the course of the next few days and
>  >> release version 0.2 of the package, which I then request to be added
>  >> to GNU ELPA.
>
>  > GNU ELPA is built from a Git repository where development is intended
>  > to happen.  So the move does not have to coincide with a release.
>
> 	Speaking of the GNU ELPA Git repository, – it seems to be a
> 	monolithic one (that is: no submodules are used.)  Curiously, is
> 	there a BCP on maintaining a package in a separate repository
> 	/and/ keeping its history mirrored in the GNU ELPA one?
>
> 	(FWIW, I’d certainly prefer having a repository of my own to
> 	keep the history of the MW package alone.)

I offered marmalade's code base for managing the elpa repository.

It's an upload based system, you just push packages in it.

The code is GPLed so there's no concerns there.

Stefan didn't understand what I meant at the time. Hopefully he does
now.


Nic