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: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:56:47 -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="38675"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, boruch_baum@gmx.com, bugs@gnu.support, stefankangas@gmail.com To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 13 05:57:48 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 1koJS8-0009x6-FD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2020 05:57:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51148 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJS7-0006NA-G2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:57:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJRB-0005XW-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1koJRA-00006T-Gs; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1koJR9-0004lj-FU; Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:56:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Thibaut Verron on Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:08:01 +0100) 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:260740 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. ]]] > > I think a mandatory requirement should simply be that any > > packages which go into non-GNU ELPA are hosted on an approved > > platform. We could point to a list of such hosting providers > > e.g. https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html > > and say Grade C or better only. . > There is no such requirement for GNU ELPA at the moment. GNU ELPA packages are hosted inside GNU ELPA itself. The package developers update their packages inside GNU ELPA. NonGNU ELPA will be quite different. Packages will generally be hosted elsewhere. We won't insist that the developers do things in the way we would consider acceptable in the GNU Project. -- 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)