Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:16:50 -0400
> 
> > If you suggest publishing part of the _data_ in each entry, then this
> > should work in principle, but (a) "Someone" needs to do the work of
> > setting this up
> 
> I've sent an implementation ^^ I'm happy to write the code if code is needed, 
> it's the specs that I don't know :)

I meant to set this up on gnu.org machines.  The hard part is to
extract the data that can be published, I think (and maybe even to
decide which part is that).

> > and (b) even in this case there might be issues which
> > need to be resolved.  For example, some people need to submit
> > disclaimers from their employers, in addition to their personal
> > assignment, but publishing that part discloses their employment, which
> > may be invading their privacy.
> 
> I think an API could say "yes", "no", or "check with maintainer".
> We can put all tricky cases in the "check with maintainer" category.

Anything's possible, but a volunteer who'd do all that is still
needed.  As always with Emacs (and GNU in general).