Re: ELPA policy

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/09/2015 06:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > So far, it seems we're short of manpower to manage even the current one.
> > To manage the infrastructure, improve the scripts, etc.
>
> Is it really such a significant effort?  I wasn't aware of that.

There are things to be done, and just a couple months ago nobody was 
doing them. I see some movement now, e.g. the last commit by Thomas 
Fitzsimmons.

> > I cannot "git pull" a new version of Dired into my stable installation
> > of Emacs 24.5.
>
> Of course you can: just copy the file over.

Automatic update is a really handy feature when you have 50+ packages 
installed. See some user statistics at 
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3s4k03/how_many_packages_do_you_use/

> We could probably find a few more.  MH-E, for example.  (Of course,
> their developers will have to agree to move.)

Yeah, I bet the majority of our users are unaware of what MH-E is.