Re: ELPA contributions?

[Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>]

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On 10 Oct 2015 8:00 am, "David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> There are no obvious submission addresses or anything like
> >> that.
> >
> > Yes, that should just be Emacs-devel as well.
>
> That does not really appear to match the realities.  There are a host of
> commits in ELPA coming from known Emacs developers (well, push
> access...) for projects I never heard of on the developer list.

There's no enforced submission process yet. But if you want to submit a
package for consideration (because you're new or you don't know if it's
worth it) then emacs-devel is the place. That's the current reality.

> And
> since ELPA contributions (if I understood correctly) require an Emacs
> copyright assignment anyway and that is coupled with commit access
> fairly often, there really is a strong appearance of "just write to ELPA
> if you think you know what you are doing".

Pretty much. Yes, it's unusual. I suppose the number of contributors has
been small, so it's worked so far (but I'm fairly new here so it's just my
impression).

We could require that people send new packages to emacs-devel before
pushing them. These wouldn't be used to veto/approve packages, it would
most be an announcement/feedback-request/ensure-it-doesnt-violate-fsf-rules
thing.

- if we're going to enforce a submission

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