Re: ELPA policy

[Stephen Leake]

John Wiegley <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> David Engster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This is not about reaching a consensus. This is about you giving proper
>> reasons for such a big change.
>
> To be clear, I would also put Eshell (though not pcomplete) into the category
> of "big things that should be in ELPA" -- albeit, the subset of ELPA that will
> be in the release tarball.
>
> It's hard to pin down why in a manner that fits in an e-mail. If Eshell were
> in ELPA today, and we were talking about moving it into core, I would have
> just as much trouble justifying that move too. Perhaps this simply underscores
> the fact that we don't have an agreed upon ELPA policy we can all
> refer to.

Yes.

> OK, David, I won't decide this by fiat. Let us decide what our ELPA policy
> will be, until it becomes clear, based on that document, what should go where,
> and why. We'll defer discussions of package movement until we have that in
> place.

Thank you.


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