Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

>> Could this information be added to "GNU ELPA" section of the CONTRIBUTE
>> file? The current contents of the section is rather confusing:
>>
>> "This repository does not contain the Emacs Lisp package archive
>> (elpa.gnu.org).  See admin/notes/elpa for how to access the GNU ELPA
>> repository."
>
> How is this?
>
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
> index 7c3421ed75..f2d161e808 100644
> --- a/CONTRIBUTE
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTE
> @@ -372,6 +372,14 @@ This repository does not contain the Emacs Lisp
> package archive
>  (elpa.gnu.org).  See admin/notes/elpa for how to access the GNU ELPA
>  repository.
>
> +Some packages are so-called "core" packages.  The GNU ELPA scripts
> +will pick them up from the Emacs master branch and release them as
> +packages periodically; a new version is packaged when their "Version"
> +comment header is updated.  Normally a new package is released within
> +24 hours after bumping the version on the Emacs master branch.  An
> +examples is lisp/progmodes/python.el, which is released as the "python"
> +package at: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/python.html

I do not see this on my side:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/CONTRIBUTE#n369

Best,
Ihor