Re: non-gnu elpa issue tracking

[Stephen Leake]

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

> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't think this is an accurate statement. The GNU ELPA
>> repository has external packages where the code is
>> primarily maintained/developed externally, often on github. A
>> 'regular' process pulls the data into the GNU ELPA
>> repository to generate new/updated package versions.  
>
> Are you sure?  AFAIK there's no such regular process, merging code from
> outside is done manually by the package maintainer or often by Stefan.

Yes, that's true. The point remains that the primary development
repository for some packages is not
git.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs/elpa.git; it is some other upstream
repository.

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-- Stephe