Sorry for the thread necromancy. What do I need to do for inclusion in GNU
ELPA?


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:00 PM, chad <yandros@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09 Jul 2014, at 20:59, Matt DeBoard <matt.deboard@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As regarding inclusion in GNU ELPA, I'm just a caretaker for the
> > project on behalf of the Elixir-lang people, but as it's already in
> > MELPA I'm sure it's fine.
>
> I would go a step further than Stefan and say that MELPA is basically the
> archetype of not-fine in this domain: finding a package in MELPA means,
> basically "someone, somewhere, wrote some code that might do something, in
> some of the versions I've had at some point". Finding a package in GNU ELPA
> (or a handful of other elpa repositories) adds things like "this version
> should actually do what's written on the tin" to potentially-interesting
> properties like "copyrights already assigned" and "can be fixed by
> interested emacs maintainers".
>
> I hope that helps,
> ~Chad
>
>