Re: Adding major or popular language modes to Emacs distribution

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,  Emacs Devel mailing list
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:14:55 -0400
> 
> > This makes sense.  But does this mean if I want to add new language modes it
> > should go to GNU ELPA rather than Emacs itself?
> 
> As a former Emacs maintainer and as de-facto maintainer of (Non)GNU
> ELPA, I think the answer here is "yes", basically.
> 
> There are some packages which we want to include in Emacs itself, either
> because they're expected to be used by a large fraction of Emacs users,
> or because they're used by other packages included in Emacs, but for
> most of the rest we prefer to accept new packages into GNU ELPA than
> into Emacs, because it offers more flexibility (e.g. in terms of
> release schedules).

When you say "we prefer" here you mean you personally, right?  Because
there's no such project-wide policy, AFAICT, and I at least don't
agree.