Re: Adding packages to ELPA

[Rasmus]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> 
>> I've been the main driving force behind the addition of packages to GNU
>> ELPA so far.  I hope other people can give me a hand.
>
> It might help if you could explain the rationale for that drive.

I agree.  I can make up my own reasons for why it would be good, but
that's a poor substitute for 

> It is entirely mysterious in my eyes, which is more disturbing as it
> is clear to me that this is somehow very important to you.

> In general, I think the main goals of the project should be stated
> clearly and be known and understood, if not accepted.  If nothing
> else, it helps to make the right decisions when writing my own code
> and reviewing that of others.

>> Most of the work for that requires very little technical knowledge.

Can you be more specific on the details of the process?  Is there more
to it than opening an issue on the project's issue tracker?  Is there
a public list of people who have signed copyright or do you typically
just rgrep NEWS/AUTHOR file(s)?

As Eli points out, it would be good to have an "official" reasoning
spelled out, also to point to if opening issues.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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