Re: ELPA policy

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>>   address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,
>>   address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 23:38:23 -0400
>> 
>> I made the first efforts to get it integrated into GNU ELPA (and Phil
>> did the heavy lifting), so no I definitely don't think it's problematic.
>
> FWIW, I took a cursory look at dash.el in ELPA, and was surprised to
> see that its doc strings are not according to our coding conventions,
> and functions/macros that clearly aren't internal don't follow the
> naming conventions.
>
> So maybe it's time we defined the minimum requirements for packages to
> be included in ELPA?


dash.el has an extensive README with a very large number of
examples. The README is produced by combining the examples from a lisp
file which also generates a test file. I think Magnar values doc tests
more than he values Emacs doc string conventions.

Phil