Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Apr 24, 2020, at 5:52, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Is there an actual effort too seek out prospective packages and ask the
>> code owners to include it in emacs?
> 
> Yes.  I'd say at least half of the packages we currently have in GNU
> ELPA are there because we went out and tried to get the authors to
> contribute their package to GNU ELPA.

I seem to remember that in the summer of 2017 and after, Mats Lidell and I, led 
by Jonas Bernoulli did something very similar for packages hosted on 
emacsmirror, after a discussion here about copyright assignments and licenses.

> I welcome help in doing that work, BTW.

If you have clear instructions, I could help.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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