Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Yuan Fu]

> On Apr 23, 2020, at 1:47 PM, ndame <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> The reasons why package authors would not want to include it
> 
> Also, it may not even occur to the developer to include the code
> in emacs, because it works for him and he's happy with it.
> 

Another downside to adding one’s package to ELPA is the inconvenience. On 
GitHub one can freely commit however he wants, receive PR and issues; but if 
it’s in ELPA, you need to take care of commit message formats, submit a patch 
and wait for someone to review & commit the patch. Also, admittedly, while the 
email based workflow works, and works fine, admittedly it is not as convenient 
as github’s PR. It would be interesting to see a Emacs+email-based PR 
system/interface. E.g., save comments and stuff into a “PR file” and pass that 
back and forth through email, and view the PR file with an elaborate interface 
in Emacs. Essentially an interactive improved patch.

Yuan