Re: Adding packages to ELPA

[Nic Ferrier]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> There are various things that need to be improved in the GNU ELPA
> infrastructure as well, which mostly require hacking on scripts and
> things like that:
>
> - Fix the forward-diffs.py so it finds the package names even when Git
>   decides to truncate the file's names in the diffstat part of the message.
> - Fix the forward-diffs.py so it automatically finds the maintainers
>   email, or automatically updates the list of maintainers.
> - Fix the forward-diffs.py so it also works for the `externals/<pkg>' 
> branches.
> - Fix the update-archive scripts so it builds the `foo.info' file from
>   the Texinfo sources and creates a matching `dir' file.
> - Fix the update-archive scripts so it signs the packages.
>
>> Is there a public list of people who have signed copyright or do you
>> typically just rgrep NEWS/AUTHOR file(s)?
>
> There's a list (on fencepost.gnu.org), but it's not public (it's only
> accessible to maintainers of GNU packages, more or less).  If someone
> needs access to the list, of course we can provide access.

Would you be interested in putting GNU ELPA on marmalade's code base?


Nic