Re: Include ivy + counsel in Emacs core?

[Doug Davis]

ej32u--- via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
writes:

> On 9/13/20 4:13 PM, arthur miller wrote:
>> I have used ivy+counsel for about some year or so for quite some time ago, 
>> but I 
>> have since switched to Helm and have been using it for like maybe years now. 
>>  In 
>> my opinion it is less buggy, has better and more integration with other 
>> packages 
>> and also feels for some reason more straightforward than Ivy and counsel.
>> 
>> In that case I would probably  vote for Helm,  but I am completely happy 
>> with 
>> such big packages being out of Emacs core. I would even like to see Org 
>> being 
>> left out or at least demoted to Elpa.
>
> I believe the Helm maintainer no longer wishes to work on Helm (see here: 
> https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2386).

Perhaps this is a good reason to bring it into Emacs core! The package
is quite mature. But I imagine the copyright assignment from all 155
contributors (listed on the GitHub repo) would be potential road block?