Re: unsupported packages area in the Emacs repo (was: Autoload from a web page?)

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/12/29 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:46:15 -0500 Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> RS>     This is just a suggestion: considering that Emacs has moved to a
> RS>     powerful DVCS, maybe it makes sense to make ELPA and emacsmirror.org
> RS>     hook into the Emacs repo.  Give commit bits and some structure to a 
> few
> RS>     people within an isolated "unsupported packages" area, and then let 
> them
> RS>     organize that area and the interfaces to it, including tracking of
> RS>     foreign packages and repos, any way they see fit.  As long as it's 
> clear
> RS>     that it's an area for unsupported packages, this has the benefit of
> RS>     integrating Emacs with the packages people find useful.
>
> RS> This might be a good idea, but we want to get copyright assignments for
> RS> these packages just as we do for the "supported" parts of Emacs.
> RS> That way we can move Lisp files between the two categories based on
> RS> practical motives.
>
> Yes, that makes a lot of sense.  Promotion could work like Apache's
> incubation process or like Haskell's hackage system, or in another way
> more suited to Emacs' model.
>
>

What do you mean by "like Haskell's hackage system"? As far as I know,
anyone can upload their package to Hackage and it will be made
available to everyone. I don't think there are any
"supported/unsupported" categories as such.

-- 
Deniz Dogan