Subject: Re: bug#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:56:34 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 04:25:54 -0700
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > This sounds OK, but begs the question: what's short description of NonGNU
> > ELPA?  Since we describe GNU ELPA, let's also describe the other one.  The
> > purpose should IMO be to explain to the reader, or at least hint why we
> > maintain two separate archives.
> 
> What do you think of the below?

It's a good starting point, but the copyright assignment issue is not
the only issue (not even the main one, from my POV).  The main issue
with NonGNU ELPA, IMO, is that packages there don't necessarily adhere
to the Emacs coding conventions, are not supervised by the Emacs
maintainers, and do not have to coordinate their development decisions
with the Emacs team.  So their integration into Emacs could be less
seamless than that of packages from GNU ELPA.