Re: Incorporate package macrostep into Emacs or NonGNU ELPA?

[Jeremy Bryant]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
>> Which brings us to the other point suggested by Jonas - moving
>> development & maintenance of macrostep to NonGNU ELPA (on Savannah)
>> itself and archiving the previous fork.
>
> Not sure what you mean by "previous fork".
> [ BTW, I only now notice that the "upstream" is called "emacsorphanage".  ]
>
> We can set the upstream to nil and change the headers to say that
> development takes place directly in `nongnu.git`, but I'm not sure it's
> really an improvement over the status quo.

macrostep was originally written by Jonathan Oddie, at
https://github.com/joddie/macrostep
but no longer maintained.  It was forked and improved by Jonas Bernoulli
and others (inc. Stefan K.)
https://github.com/emacsorphanage/macrostep

My original request was to move the 'orphanage' repo to one of the
Savannah repos, in line with a discussion with Jonas:

> I think this is a good idea.  I've considered this myself before, but
> never got around to it.
>
> There are other people that are much more qualified to maintain this
> package, and that certainly includes the core developers.  Stefan Kangas
> (cced) has contributed to the fork before.
>
> I would like to hand of this package to someone else, preferably the
> core team.  If we decide to go down that road, that would mean adding
> a branch to elpa.git and making that the official upstream repository,
> and archiving the repository in the orphanage.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Jonas

>
>> Jonathan Oddie has kindly proposed to sign the FSF paperwork once he
>> receives it.
>
> Not sure if I understand correctly.  Is he already in the process of
> signing the paperwork, or is he waiting for someone to send him the form
> for that (in which case, I'd be happy to send it to him)?

The form has now been sent to Jonathan by Eli.

>> Given that macrostep is useful for Emacs Lisp macro development, would
>> there be interest to include in Emacs core?
>
> I don't have a strong opinion either way.

In another message on this list, Eli is in favour so I will continue
work on this, Emacs core rather than NonGNU.

>
>> If so I can volunteer to reach out to other recent contributors, beyond
>> the original author, for the same purpose?
>
> That would be awesome.
>
>     % git log elpa/macrostep | grep Author: | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>       1 Author: Chunyang Xu <xuchunyang56@gmail.com>
>       1 Author: duianto <duianto@users.noreply.github.com>
>       1 Author: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
>       1 Author: Jonathan Oddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>
>       1 Author: Torbjörn Norinder <torbjorn@genunix.se>
>       2 Author: Fice T <fice-t@protonmail.com>
>       2 Author: Jon Oddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>
>       2 Author: Luís Borges de Oliveira <lbo@siscog.pt>
>       2 Author: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>       3 Author: George Kettleborough <g.kettleborough@member.fsf.org>
>       4 Author: Jonathan Oddie <j.j.oddie@gmail.com>
>       4 Author: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
>      12 Author: Luís Oliveira <loliveira@common-lisp.net>
>      13 Author: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li>
>      80 Author: joddie <jonxfield@gmail.com>
>
> Of those, Luís Oliveira has signed some paperwork but not for Emacs, and
> Fice, Torbjörn, and "duianto" don't appear at all in the
> `copyright.list` so we'll need to either ask them to sign the paperwork,
> or look at their contributions (to see if they're small enough or have
> been replaced since).

I will start work on this.