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Re: Improving GNU ELPA
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Improving GNU ELPA |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:20:33 +0100 |
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Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> What are the current rules for using a separate upstream
>> in ELPA?
>
> There are no real rules, here, other than the fact that elpa.git may be
> modified by us directly, so if the maintainer decides to keep the
> "upstream" elsewhere it's his responsibility to deal with the fallout
This bit I don't like!
> [ We try to help with that by automatically sending her an email with
> the diffs that have been installed, tho this automatic forwarding is
> currently broken, as mentioned earlier in this thread:
>
> > - when someone commits to elpa.git we get an elpa-diffs email which
> > I used to then forward to the corresponding package maintainer.
> > This forwarding is currently broken because of changes to my
> > email server. This should really be done in elpa.gnu.org instead of
> > iro.umontreal.ca anyway, so I don't intend to fix the old setup.
>
> Help would be very warmly welcome here. ]
>
> More generally: it's not ideas that are missing, it's people helping
> improve the setup.
What sort of commits do you do locally? Would scripting something to
branch, and do git-request-pull to the upstream be a substitute?
Phil
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, (continued)
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/19
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA,
Phillip Lord <=
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Stefan Monnier, 2017/07/18
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/19
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Richard Stallman, 2017/07/23
- Re: Improving GNU ELPA, Phillip Lord, 2017/07/24
Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads, Paul Rankin, 2017/07/20