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tbanel / uniline

enhance your textes with UNICODE drawings
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Consider contributing to GNU ELPA? #1

Open alphapapa opened 1 month ago

alphapapa commented 1 month ago

Hi Thierry,

This library looks really cool! I can imagine it being very useful, e.g. in drawing diagrams in Org documents.

MELPA is great, of course, but I wonder, have you considered contributing this to GNU ELPA?

tbanel commented 1 month ago

Hi Adam, thanks!

Wow! I published Uniline on GitHub 3 days ago, and you already discovered it.

No… I did not considered Gnu ELPA. It is for the happy fews. Barriers to entry must be very high.

I wrote a pull-request to publish Uniline on MELPA. Waiting for approval.

You published the popular org-ql on MELPA. Have you tried to make it available on Gnu ELPA? If so, what are your feelings about the process?

Anyway, have fun, and let us stay in touch. Thierry

alphapapa commented 1 month ago

Hi Thierry,

Wow! I published Uniline on GitHub 3 days ago, and you already discovered it.

I happened to look at recent MELPA PRs and yours was near the top. :)

No… I did not considered Gnu ELPA. It is for the happy fews. Barriers to entry must be very high.

That's a common misconception. In some ways MELPA has more stringent requirements and a more formal submission and review process. You should feel free to submit your package to GNU ELPA. It will be warmly received.

You published the popular org-ql on MELPA. Have you tried to make it available on Gnu ELPA? If so, what are your feelings about the process?

I have several packages on GNU ELPA as well. If you're comfortable with sending and receiving email, there will be nothing to be afraid of about submitting to GNU ELPA.

FWIW, the long-term plan is for org-ql to be upstreamed (at least, in part) into Org itself, but there is no firm timeframe for that, as developer time is limited. See the relevant issue on the Org QL tracker.

tbanel commented 1 month ago

Good! You changed my mind. I will consider Gnu ELPA. It happens I have other packages on MELPA (orgtbl-aggregate and orgtbl-join) that could be candidates as well.

I saw the long discussion with Ihor about including org-ql into org core. And the sub-discussion about ts. Yes, I agree, Emacs time & date API could be made more user-friendly.