Re: Improving documentation of Org Mode integration into Emacs.

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> I think we should explain the issue concisely, and then provide
> specific instructions.  This text is IMO enough for the first part:
>
>   +Sometimes a package that ships as part of GNU Emacs is maintained as a
>   +separate project, with its own upstream repository, its own maintainer
>   +group, its own development conventions, etc.  The upstream project's
>   +code is periodically merged into Emacs (exactly when and how such
>   +merges happen depends on the package).
>   +
>   +So when you are making a contribution -- such as fixing a bug or
>   +proposing an enhancement -- to one of these externally maintained
>   +packages, you often need to deal with that package at its upstream
>   +source.
>
> Following that, we should provide a full, exhaustive list of all such
> packages in Emacs core, each one with a corresponding URL (mailing
> list, upstream repository with an issue tracker, etc.).  It might be a
> good idea to have this list on a separate file, perhaps in etc/, and
> only have CONTRIBUTE point to that file.

We have already admin/MAINTAINERS, which could easily be extended for
this. I, for example, am mentioned there as responsible for
Tramp. Adding the Tramp relevant URLs would be easy, and so for all
other external maintained packages.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.