The takeaway message is: Yes the readme could use some improvements.

On 9 Oct 2015 9:32 am, "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> I've taken a look at elpa.gnu.org and the README referenced in there,
> and at lists.gnu.org.  There does not appear to be a discussion list for
> ELPA,

There isn't. Elpa stuff is discussed on the emacs lists. But the Readme
should certainly say that.

> and the README just contains the technical details of uploading
> material to ELPA (it's not really clear when to choose an external
> branch).

Yes, that needs to be clarified too. The idea is to just use a subtree,
unless you _know_ you want an external branch for some reason.

> There are no obvious submission addresses or anything like
> that.

Yes, that should just be Emacs-devel as well.

> One just dumps his stuff in there in case one happens to be an Emacs
> developer?

I don't understand this sentence. Dumps their stuff on elpa.git? What does
this have to do with being a developer?

Cheers,
Artur