Re: ELPA policy

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09.05.2020 09:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> And why do I have to submit bug reports against an ELPA package for
> violation of our coding conventions?

Because it's the only way how things can work well. Once we have a bug 
tracker that most maintainers like to use, that could change.

> I'd expect the maintainer of the
> package to be asked to fix those as a precondition for accepting the
> package in GNU ELPA, or at least as a long-term plan to which the
> maintainer agreed in advance (in which case no bug report would have
> been necessary).
>
> What am I missing here?

You're missing that the maintainers don't have any contractual 
obligations. The more conditions we add, and the less effort we want to 
expend ourselves [forwarding bug reports], the higher the odds are that 
we end up with fewer contributions/stale code/untended bug reports.