Re: Adding use-package to core

[Stefan Kangas]

John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org> writes:

>>>>>> Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I would personally like to see the package in core if at all possible, and
>> John has also expressed interest in that. Personally I'd prefer if
>> development continues in core after upstreaming, but it is upto John to
>> decide. I know that Modus-themes and Org both are developed out of tree, and
>> only merged in when the package version is bumped. Which means history is
>> lost, but clearly that hasn't been a problem and maintainers of those
>> packages prefer it.
>
> I'm entirely in support of the code and its development moving directly into
> core. Whichever best supports the Emacs developers and the needs of the
> community, since it is more than likely that future work will be carried out
> by others. I'm ready to hand it off in whatever way is desired by the team
> here.

IMHO, for that to make sense, someone capable would have to volunteer to
maintain it on our side.  If we don't have such a volunteer, it makes
more sense to me to keep development external for now.

If we see a need to move development fully into core in the future, we
can always do that, but the reverse is harder.

(If we want to preserve history when making such a move at a later date,
we could just delete our existing copy of the file from emacs.git and
then merge the full git history, just as we did with eglot.el.)