Re: [ELPA] New package: activities

[Chris Van Dusen]

> On Jan 29, 2024, at 15:49, JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
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> PS: I personally feel that by the time a package author presents a 
> well-written and fairly complete package for inclusion into ELPA, it is too 
> late to make the argument that they should have instead contributed that 
> functionality to a built-in package.  If you can convince them earlier in the 
> process, of course, but it certainly adds to the outside impression that ELPA 
> is a gauntlet that must be run, which I think all agree is not desired.

I’m not sure I follow. Most of the time package authors don’t ssy anything 
until they want to publish the package, so how can the maintainers suggest to 
them to contribute to  an existing package?

An alternative would be for potential package authors to post to emacs-devel, 
stating that they would like to see feature foo in package bar.  If it turns 
out that it is not feasible to implement the feature, then sure, a new package 
can be created. 

Chris.