Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH] Package Installation in Tutorial

[Daniel Fleischer]

Drew Adams [2021-12-04 Sat 18:16] wrote:

> FWIW, I agree with pretty much everything Daniel
> has said, both here and in previous messages in
> this thread, and with the way he's presented and
> argued for his proposal.

Thanks for the kind words.

> The number of people who've provided extremely
> valuable help, including outstanding features,
> to the Emacs community, and who've given up
> trying (or never bothered to try) to participate
> in direct development of vanilla Emacs, is not
> insignificant.

It's dynamic. With the introduction of nonGNU we saw packages "coming
home" and being available out of the box without the legal hurdle. One
such example is magit. It's nice; you can think of melpa, nongnu, elpa
and core as tiers for contributors' involvement. People do what they
feel comfortable with in terms of time, patient and effort and EVERY
contribution is appreciated, and made with love, as you said.

-- 

Daniel Fleischer