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: access to ELPA development packages? Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:01:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <868s1z42nz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> 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="38518"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 03:02:55 2021 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 1m8XyG-0009fv-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:02:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41382 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8XyF-0003Oe-Kg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:02:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8Xwe-0001iO-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40498) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8Xwe-0006VX-5E; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8Xwb-0002KA-R5; Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:01:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <868s1z42nz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Wed, 21 Jul 2021 17:23:28 -0700) 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:271712 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'd like to use that now; I'm finishing a new ada-mode release, and I'd > like to have some community members alpha test it before the final > release. Perhaps we should make test versions available only temporarily, so that nobody goes on for years referring to a momentary test version. We should tell people that we will delete the test version once the new code has been installed in the Emacs repo, and we should actually do that. Or, what would you think of putting this in a branch in the Emacs repo? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)