From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xenodasein--- via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On Contributing To Emacs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:11:04 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <87lf033qyv.fsf@gmail.com> <83zgoiipn9.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: xenodasein@tutanota.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7176"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 30 11:12:44 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 1n2sQO-0001hA-6i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:12:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49344 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2sQN-0008DJ-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2sOp-0007Dl-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from w4.tutanota.de ([81.3.6.165]:54528) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n2sOn-0001zG-UJ; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from w3.tutanota.de (unknown [192.168.1.164]) by w4.tutanota.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EE9106016E; Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:11:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1640859064; s=s1; d=tutanota.de; h=From:From:To:To:Subject:Subject:Content-Description:Content-ID:Content-Type:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc:Cc:Date:Date:In-Reply-To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Message-ID:Reply-To:References:References:Sender; bh=NBSsNxwAQeA4CbI+c1ioJmNcE1cEHJESw/TxvREBeQE=; b=HsSXTqQNQdXMTvTihEzq7jACxA0rBLdsXYbQRaZaitGCg9au0c2kFZvZoWAySGmV 7SkOlkAzy95ljuvLYQ1/OjgAXfR1qPAVkNTCUiaTeYlEDTUih2OXE6yq2xj4n4tFnEV QIAtIiZitGXHrkYRELOay6LUIgzdYO8hiRlcmTfltLd6XQaVcF/gB2Mp9RMGBA5BgAE +eie/TqRzk8WDJ/Gk8EuuZ2pJVT9LmNl2WQzXsZgF8V/LqLpdceacrjsY+8CQlDIAWc n/j7IC5wgYeX9wbNX8GVpy04j6QuiDq6om0UzNn1Dolq/hkxtfVi64yV07iuuklcnXc xVMoFuOCgA== In-Reply-To: <83zgoiipn9.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.3.6.165; envelope-from=xenodasein@tutanota.de; helo=w4.tutanota.de X-Spam_score_int: -1 X-Spam_score: -0.2 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.2 / 5.0 requ) DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:283631 Archived-At: Dec 30, 2021, 09:16 by eliz@gnu.org: > ... > So the experience people have in releasing much smaller and/or less > versatile and/or less interactive packages doesn't scale well when > applied to Emacs. > Would it be possible to make an exception for built-in packages that act as kind of a gateway, like package.el?=C2=A0 It could be developed insi= de the previous major release, and have more frequent minor releases. In practice once in a few months should be enough, if at all.