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: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8lm0yhtuul6tmc.fsf@iki.fi> <87blgqtkz2.fsf@gmail.com> 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="36727"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ane@iki.fi, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ivan Yonchovski Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 26 05:12:28 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 1kWtrv-0009R2-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 05:12:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58548 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtru-0005aM-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtqP-0004Zv-R4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtqO-0001u2-O7; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWtq7-0006k5-DZ; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 00:10:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87blgqtkz2.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Ivan Yonchovski on Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:54:09 +0200) 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:258454 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. ]]] > So, if someone wants to be in NonGNU elpa should not be using github? If > this is the case then why it is fine for ELPA package to be in github > but it won't be fine for NonGNU ELPA? I haven't come to a conclusion about that. I see a few possibilities. * If the Emacs maintainers who work on this package have Github accounts, in principle we could deal with it on GitHub. * We could make a repo on Savannah that has a more-or-less copy of the GitHub repo, and our maintainers could when necessary make their changes there. It depends on whether the package maintainer is cooperating with us. If so, the first option is possible. If not, we would certainly do the latter. One question is, when we need to make our own changes in a package, should we do those changes in NonGNU ELPA's repo itself, or should we make a separate Savannah repo for our version of the package so that NonGNU ELPA's is never anything but a mirror? -- 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)