Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Ok, I see.  No, there would certainly not be a default inclination
  > towards GitHub.  Instead my idea was that a package might specify where
  > to find its repository, and if you enter a package name that has a
  > header like this:

  >    ;; VC: https://vcs.host/path/to/repo.git

  > package-fetch would use this.

That's fine -- but note that the packages in NonGNU ELPA should list
NonGNU ELPA as the repo.  They shouldn't refer people to GitHub.

In some cases, the NonGNU ELPA version might contain some of our own
patches.

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