Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Stefan Kangas]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>   >   We've recently
>   > discussed that our copy dash.el is out of sync with recent
>   > development, and we have coffee-mode.el before that.
>
> Would someone with good social skills like to ask the developers of
> dash to move their development into GNU ELPA, or ask why they have not
> done so?  I am sure they can see the advantage of having their latest
> version available through Emacs.

It seems no one has volunteered yet.

But I'm not sure what exactly is involved here.  All I can see in
elpa.git is that there is a pointer in externals-list to the dash
repository?  So why isn't it updated exactly?

Sorry, I don't know how this is all supposed to work.

Hmm, looking closer.  Is it enough for the package maintainer to just
push the latest changes to the 'externals/dash' branch in addition to
the original repository?

>   > Is there something we could do to avoid such a situation before it
>   > arises?  To my mind, we really need package authors to push
>   > (figuratively speaking) their changes to us, rather than us having to
>   > pull their changes.
>
> Could we make explicit arrangements with the package developers, about
> continued maintainance of the package within GNU ELPA, as part of
> arranging to include the package in GNU ELPA?  Do we already do this?

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas