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: non-gnu elpa issue tracking Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:35:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> 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="16532"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Boruch Baum Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 05:36:30 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 1knDgs-0004D5-1V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:36:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48946 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knDgr-0001kO-45 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:36:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knDg7-0001Iz-CO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1knDg7-0004Is-5A; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1knDg6-0005sc-5E; Wed, 09 Dec 2020 23:35:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20201209125516.lenqswi7fhiscbr2@E15-2016.optimum.net> (message from Boruch Baum on Wed, 9 Dec 2020 07:55:16 -0500) 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:260629 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. ]]] > 1) License disclosure: The summaries indicate that RMS is open to having > the repository host packages bearing *any* free license, Actually no. The rules, in README.org, say the license has to be compatible with GPL 3-or-later, which is the licensing of GNU Emacs itself. but there > may be users who are pickier, so a package's license should be > disclosed prominently on the listing page and the package detail > page; That seems like a good idea. > 2) The acceptance or candidacy process for each package should be > documented in some discrete method. Whether to have a certain package in NonGNU ELPA could be a touchy question, in some borderline cases. Stating the reasons could perhaps hurt feelings, or lead to arguments. So it is best not to do that. We will add a package or we won't. If you know about a package we don't add, you will be able to find it (without our help). > 3) After a package is initially accepted to the repository, the > summaries of Richard Stallman's presentation indicate that subsequent > commits or releases may be rejected or modified. That record should > also be documented. It could be a good idea to document the reasons for decisions like these. Future maintainers will need to understand this. I don't think we should make a commitment to publish this without exception, but usually there will be no reason not to. > 4) There's no link on the repository page[1] to the software being used > to generate it, and the forge at which it is being developed. It would be fine to add that info. -- 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)