Re: Maintenance of cobol-mode.el on ELPA

[kristofer]

> On 05/03/2024 8:15 AM CEST Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> > Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 21:57:23 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: kristofer@hjelmtorp.se
> > 
> > Greetings Emacs maintainers.
> > 
> > I noticed in the last update to the Elpa package; cobol-mode.el, that is 
> > now orphaned and that you are looking for someone to step up and maintain 
> > it.
> > 
> > I would be willing to take over that role if you would let me. I work with 
> > COBOL (IBM Enterprise COBOL) in my in daily work and use Emacs
> > together with cobol-mode.el to do it. My emacs-lisp skills are mediocre at 
> > best but I will do my best to fix bugs and keep it working. But my ambition 
> > is to work on the missing features listed in the package, update it to 
> > include changes in the COBOL standards, improve the indentation and maybe 
> > in the future work on a tree-sitter implementation.
> 
> Thank you for volunteering.
> 
> > I do have very little knowledge about how a Elpa package like this is 
> > usually developed and how the commit process works so any information and 
> > tips are welcomed.
> > 
> > I have recently signed and sent in my FSF papers.
> 
> Thanks.  Please tell us when you have your legal paperwork completed.
> 
> (I'll leave it to others to fill you in about ELPA practices.)

I will let you know when I have gotten confirmation from FSF that they have 
signed it.