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

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> I think it could be even simpler than that: ELPA is built every 24 hours
>> right now. If we just registered external repos with ELPA, part of the
>> build process could be pulling from those repos automatically, once per
>> day. Package authors already have a mechanism for manually triggering a
>> release: incrementing the package version number. There's no harm in
>> ELPA bringing in new commits from the externals, if the author is still
>> in control of when a new version is released.
>
> I think it's important that we don't "pull" from "random" places like
> Github repositories.  More specifically, the "push to elpa.git" serves
> as a confirmation that someone thinks this code is appropriate for
> elpa.git (typically the concern being copyright).

It doesn't seem much more random to say "we're adding your repo URL to
our list of approved ELPA pull-sources" than to say "you're now free to
push whatever you like", does it? An ELPA administrator still has to
make that explicit decision to add the URL, so there's still a level of
approval?