Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 18/02/2024 15:51, Po Lu wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev>  writes:
>
> > We seem to have a different understanding of the word "cost".
> Yours appears to revolve around the cost to "Emacs maintenance"--but
> this is an abstract conception offering little in the way of information
> that might contribute to a sound decision.  My definition is the
> aggregate of the costs to each Emacs developer, which is zero, inasmuch
> as work is not being done.

With "zero cost to each developer", the package now lies in a state 
which cannot be called "well-maintained".

So not only that means that the cost to have it in good state is 
non-zero, it also shows that the Emacs maintainers failed to identify 
the problem for a number of years. Because people weren't willing to 
expend the effort necessary to do so.