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| author | Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> | 2022-01-10 13:20:29 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> | 2022-01-10 13:20:29 -0600 |
| commit | 99f47ede413ea8c04ad1f1ca8f1a678f7942578c (patch) | |
| tree | 367115bfc1df98a93264d3533210cacfbda5dc78 /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | 97806bc7deeec7ab1458eb5ff689f46ec8e7c652 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-99f47ede413ea8c04ad1f1ca8f1a678f7942578c.tar.gz | |
Document external maintenance of some packages
Document the fact that some packages in Emacs are externally
maintained, and specifically document Org Mode's external maintenance.
For more context, see the thread that starts here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg00366.html
From: Karl Fogel
To: Emacs Devel
Subject: Improving documentation of Org Mode integration into Emacs.
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 15:14:59 -0600
Message-ID: <87zgpgax7w.fsf@red-bean.com>
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 7c3421ed75a..614afa27db7 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -366,6 +366,22 @@ reasons. These should be marked by including something like "Do not merge to master" or anything that matches gitmerge-skip-regexp (see admin/gitmerge.el) in the commit message. +** Some packages in Emacs are maintained externally + +Sometimes a package that ships as part of GNU Emacs is maintained as a +separate project, with its own upstream repository, its own maintainer +group, its own development conventions, etc. The upstream project's +code is periodically merged into Emacs (exactly when and how such +merges happen depends on the package). + +So when you are making a contribution -- such as fixing a bug or +proposing an enhancement -- to one of these externally maintained +packages, you sometimes need to deal with that package at its upstream +source. + +In the section "Externally maintained packages" in "admin/MAINTAINERS" +we maintain a list of such packages. + ** GNU ELPA This repository does not contain the Emacs Lisp package archive |