Re: New Package for NonGNU-ELPA: clojure-ts-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:22:21 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, 
> dmitry@gutov.dev, 
>       luangruo@yahoo.com, danny@dfreeman.email, 
>       Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>, Emacs Devel 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
>       Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
> 
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 1:39 PM Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.dev> wrote:
> > I believe this conversation has drifted a lot from the original topic 
> > (clojure-ts-mode). I have to say I'm a bit frustrated that every time 
> > someone wants to submit something to NonGNU ELPA there's some push to 
> > either submit to GNU ELPA or core instead. I've been maintaining almost all 
> > of the Clojure dev tooling for Emacs for over a decade, so I do believe 
> > that by now I know what I'm doing and how I want to do things. I've said a 
> > million times by now that I don't want contributors to have to deal with 
> > copyright agreements and with quirks/oddities in the Emacs development 
> > process. I believe that the maintainers who actually work on something 
> > should be allowed to decide how their projects get developed.
> >
> If it wasn't for the copyright assignment requirement, there wouldn't
> be a real issue blocking the incorporation of clojure-mode into core
> emacs.

That's a far cry from what the above actually says.  They also don't
want to deal with the "quirks/oddities" of the Emacs development
process.  They quite simply do NOT want clojure-mode to be part of
Emacs.  The CA part is just one part of that, and I'm guessing not the
main one.