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Re: [emacs-humanities] New Maintainer callout: Binder
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Paul W. Rankin |
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Re: [emacs-humanities] New Maintainer callout: Binder |
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Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:52:42 +1000 |
> On 11 Sep 2024, at 21:18, Divya <divya@subvertising.org> wrote:
>
> Hello, Paul!
>
> I'd be up for maintaining it. I think it's a worthy project and shouldn't be
> orphaned.
> On 13 Sep 2024, at 05:13, Stefan Monnier via Emacs-humanities
> <emacs-humanities@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Perhaps GNU could set up a second Emacs-Lisp Package Archive for such
>> packages where authors can no longer maintain a package but do not
>> want them to become orphaned.
>
> The infrastructure for (Non)GNU ELPA can already handle packages without
> an "upstream" (in which case the authoritative "upstream" is the coe in
> `elpa.git` or `nongnu.git`), so there is no need for an
> additional archive.
>
> We don't currently have such orphaned packages in NonGNU ELPA, but
> we do have several in GNU ELPA.
>
>
> Stefan
Hi Divya,
It’s also an option to move the project into GNU ELPA as suggested
above. I’ve signed the copyright assignment documents so this would be
easy to do. This may provide you more help with maintaining the project.
Paul