From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="62472"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eric Abrahamsen , Yuan Fu , Emacs developers , ndame To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 04:49:04 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 1jSAsJ-000G8h-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2020 04:49:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSAsI-0002Yb-Sb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:49:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSArU-0001yg-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSArS-0000Kv-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:31749) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jSArS-0000Ho-GC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id D656C100F6F; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id F39CC100CBC; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:06 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1587782887; bh=TKcwaZXL6CB7p/YLqJdsAMbL5fs9LPBVoYiQkzwt61g=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=cHC9NpDXHOwY3s8HoeYoKrba+Lp7dVxqHnVvKO5DUMtDrsYXuXARK4SQSko5hzIqW EnQ3Fw0ksg80OIQUdzY3R0NWBLQwjiM28iAuThuXI97SksBYJFmtJHrBPlThFdjei6 8oDCKFVljlsHZIc+4ZIZ+7lE+J2mQgTCPyAjfpwcHPExOY43o2eBJmaytHD3r8yLP0 Jlnh6slNIm3MQkqqZRPFJaJ02hkYiIq2gyHNW9nQMeTAYSAifsLCkOPT+GL113UWuz bP2Yp7o8uxsGMaxjathZKhedkU8aiUP9o/1DkS1GuRQdIJCjC/z1JBqjeArhgRqJg7 MX636/t/GjEGg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.241.114]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A4C70120642; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:48:06 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:47:35 +0100") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/24 22:48:09 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 132.204.25.50 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:247732 Archived-At: > I have been through the process with dash.el as you know, and while I > managed to get it into ELPA, I have not managed to update it for a while > because there are new contributors and the process is all too painful. The check has to be done right when a new contributor appears, not after the fact, indeed, otherwise it quickly becomes unmanageable. Stefan