From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA and release frequency Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:48:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8lm0yhtuul6tmc.fsf@iki.fi> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5486"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ane@iki.fi, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 25 04:49:07 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kWX1n-0001Lz-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 04:49:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWX1m-0002oi-JR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58336) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWX16-0002MK-B9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57964) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWX14-0007I8-7X; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:48:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWX13-0006kY-DX; Sat, 24 Oct 2020 23:48:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Sat, 24 Oct 2020 10:08:04 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:258439 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > - [ ] replicate GNU ELPA website in similar fashon on ELPA on > nongnu.org without changing much, keep informing public on the > website of the project's progress Maybe that would be a good way to start, but we don't want NonGNU ELPA to work like GNU ELPA. > - [ ] provide hosting and shell access to set up git and free code > hosting platform familiar to many developers using Github. Such free > code hosting platform is https://gitea.io/en-us/ or Gitlab.com, I > would prefer first. One of the inconveniences with GNU ELPA is that it is a single repo. Everyone who maintains a package in GNU ELPA needs write-access to the whole repo. In NonGNU ELPA, we want each package to have, effectively, its own repo. We want to distribute all the packages from a single place in one single way, but no packages will be developed _in_ that place. Each package will be developed in a repo somewhere else. Some will be on Savannah. Some will be elsewhere (but insisting that maintenance not require running nonfree JS code). The Emacs maintainers will have full control over the NonGNU ELPA web site, including deciding which packages to distribute, and which repo to get each package from. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)