Re: [RFC] Urgrep: New ELPA submission (eventually)

[Stefan Monnier]

> First, assigning copyright of Urgrep to the FSF (so that it can go in GNU
> ELPA) is just a matter of updating the copyright field in the code, right?
> Do I need to fill out any paperwork or anything too?

You basically need to "state" that you consider that code to be covered
by your existing Emacs assignment.  We usually consider that changing
the copyright line in the files is a valid way to make this statement.

> Second, my usual process for versioning is that I'll release a version like
> "1.0" by updating the "Version:" field and tagging it. Then, in the next
> commit, I update the "Version:" field to something like "2.0-snapshot". So
> in this case, I'd expect GNU ELPA to give users version 1.0, and GNU
> ELPA-devel to give users the latest 2.0-snapshot version. Does ELPA
> understand that?

Yes.


        Stefan