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 23:45:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8lm0yhtuul6tmc.fsf@iki.fi> <87blgqtkz2.fsf@gmail.com> <9cf567ef-caee-5596-b94d-a4ebccd208db@yandex.ru> 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="20849"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ane@iki.fi, yyoncho@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 04:47:29 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 1kXFxI-0005Kc-UO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 04:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXFxI-0006AA-0D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXFvd-0005Gh-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41479) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXFvd-0005xz-6D; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kXFvb-0003GU-CE; Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:45:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9cf567ef-caee-5596-b94d-a4ebccd208db@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:37:00 +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:258489 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. ]]] > > 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. > Would we have packages where the maintainers don't cooperate, though? We will not shy away from including such packages if they are useful to include. > At best, such a package should be a fork, but then it could also be > renamed, and then hosted on Savannah, or wherever. Why would we want to include a package even though its maintainer will not cooperate? Probably because users want to use it the way it is. So we would not want to change what it does for the user, nor the package name users are accustomed to. -- 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)