Re: ELPA policy

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <address@hidden>
> Cc: John Wiegley <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 19:00:06 +0100
> 
> On Sun, Nov 08 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > My greatest fears are that packages that move from core to ELPA will
> > get much less attention from the core maintenance team, which will
> > eventually degrade their quality.
> 
> But this is not what actually happens with completely separately
> developed complex packages like SLIME, Evil...

Most packages in core are not of this kind.

> On the other hand, IIUC, moving CEDET to emacs core has not been
> completely without problems for the CEDET project and its users.

Such moves are never without problems, which is exactly my point.  In
this case, I think the benefits far outweighed the problems: until
CEDET was incorporated into Emacs core, we couldn't even dream about
using it as infrastructure for IDEs and other similar features.
AFAIR, there was also lots of cleanup during the move.

But moving ELPA packages into the core is not being discussed or
suggested.  So what happened with CEDET, even if you disagree with my
assessment above, has little relevance to the issue at hand.