From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Packages + elpa.gnu.org Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:55:52 -0400 Message-ID: <87y6a86muv.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <81eic0wsre.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286596564 2416 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2010 03:56:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 03:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 05:56:02 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4QXS-0004UB-7U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:56:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4QXQ-0003NN-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41634 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4QXL-0003NI-SW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4QXK-0004LM-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po24.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.118]:54565) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4QXK-0004LH-DO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (adsl-99-111-197-225.dsl.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net [99.111.197.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po24.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o993tr5k006812 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CABD9C018; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:55:52 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <81eic0wsre.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:01:33 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131519 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > 1. Who acts as a janitor for the elpa repository. Me. Ted Zlatanov also has access. We've both been pretty busy on other parts of Emacs lately, though, so there are a couple of packages that are in the pipeline for uploading (including AuCTEX). > 2. How does one upload packages - a mail drop to the maintainer, remote > update from within emacs - scp, ftp etc etc . (Is package-x.el's > package-upload-buffer and related configuration documented > somewhere.) Probably the easiest way to set this up is for someone on the org-mode team to upload the dailies to a server somewhere on the web, giving the tarball a deterministic name. Then, someone (probably me) will have to set up a cron job on elpa.gnu.org to check for that tarball each day, download it, and run `package-upload-file' to add it to the repository. > 3. Does the package manager expect that builtin packages be versioned in > a special way. For example, can the stable release be called 7.0.1 > while a daily snapshot be called 20101008? The package manager uses the most recent version of a package, as defined by `version-list-<'. > 4. Any general guidelines on what packages would be accepted there and > how often an update can happen. Are daily snapshots allowed. The main requirement is for package copyrights to be FSF assigned. I think providing dailies is fine.