[ELPA-diffs] [elpa] 01/01: [maint] Describe a way to do public incubation.

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

ttn pushed a commit to branch master
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commit f29c5e2d382b8ab118ae60681fb30798e9122fd6
Author: Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 16:59:16 2014 +0100

    [maint] Describe a way to do public incubation.
    
    Other ways at this time require munging the cron job.  See:
    <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg02156.html>.
    
    * packages/README (Public incubation): New section.
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diff --git a/packages/README b/packages/README
index d0b2d3e..4c8545a 100644
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@@ -52,3 +52,10 @@ You can check out all the external packages into the 
`packages' directory
 with the command:
 
    make externals
+
+* Public incubation
+
+If you want to develop a package publicly prior to its first release (to
+benefit from others' feedback, primarily), but not in an external repo,
+you can push to an "ephemeral" branch -- subject to rebase and eventual
+removal upon finishing merge -- for the duration of the incubation.