Re: [ELPA] New package: use-package

[Philip Kaludercic]

Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> What are we trying to find?  From what I know use-package is already a
>> very mature package, written by very capable people.  I expect most of
>> the changes to be made after use-package.el has been added to the core.
>>
>>> Ultimate aim here is to make use-package to emacs.git, so users have
>>> use-package available without any effort. ELPA is just a step in that
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> 1 -> 2 -> 3 is also how Eglot went about and it worked quite well for it.
>>
>> Yes, but the arrow between points 2 and 3 would have to be pretty long.
>> Eglot was an ELPA package from the very beginning, and I don't know if
>> the documentation was ever as incomplete as it is for use-package right
>> now.  The rewrite into Texinfo (which is probably what I had confused)
>> took place just before the package was merged into the core.
>> use-package will now be added to GNU ELPA with _incomplete_ Texinfo
>> documentation.  This is my objection.  An outdated manual with "TODO"s
>> can be more frustrating than no documentation at all.
>>
>>> From my understanding, ELPA has less stringent requirements for
>>> documentation and testing compared to core. Since I cannot commit enough
>>> time to complete all the tasks before expected 29 branch-off, ELPA is a
>>> good compromise IMO.
>>
>> Most packages on ELPA don't have any special documentation, most don't
>> need any documentation either.  Use-package is more complicated,
>
> All fair points. I will focus on getting TexInfo doc in shape before
> making PR ready for review. Should we comment out use-package recipe in
> elpa-packages.el until then?

As long as the version tag is not bumped, there shouldn't be a release.
So I don't think there is a need for change anything.