Including Evil in GNU ELPA
I remember asking this a few years ago, but somehow I can't seem to find the answer. So here it is again: I think it would be great to include Evil in the GNU ELPA archive. Would Evil's maintainers be interested in doing so? If yes, then please get in touch with me, so we can work out the details (which mostly have to do with copyright paperwork, since we have the same policy for GNU ELPA as for Emacs, to make it easy to move code between the two). Stefan
Am 30.05.2014 17:46, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
I remember asking this a few years ago, but somehow I can't seem to find the answer. So here it is again: I think it would be great to include Evil in the GNU ELPA archive.
Would Evil's maintainers be interested in doing so? If yes, then please get in touch with me, so we can work out the details (which mostly have to do with copyright paperwork, since we have the same policy for GNU ELPA as for Emacs, to make it easy to move code between the two).
Well, I do not know of Vegard (I have not heard from him for some time now, but he contributed most parts of Evil), but for me it's ok. However, I do not really know anything about that legal stuff (neither what has to be done nor what its legal consequences are). And I do not know if all contributors agree, of course. Furthermore, I suppose that most people use the git version of Evil (via melpa), so I'm not sure how important a GNU ELPA package would be. But if there is some interest in providing one I'm willing to do so. Best regards, Frank
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Frank Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
Am 30.05.2014 17:46, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
I remember asking this a few years ago, but somehow I can't seem to find the answer. So here it is again: I think it would be great to include Evil in the GNU ELPA archive.
Would Evil's maintainers be interested in doing so? If yes, then please get in touch with me, so we can work out the details (which mostly have to do with copyright paperwork, since we have the same policy for GNU ELPA as for Emacs, to make it easy to move code between the two).
Well, I do not know of Vegard (I have not heard from him for some time now, but he contributed most parts of Evil), but for me it's ok. However, I do not really know anything about that legal stuff (neither what has to be done nor what its legal consequences are). And I do not know if all contributors agree, of course.
I don’t know whether my minor contribution of the initial code for evil-digraph.el would make me a contributor, but I’m all for it. I’d gladly complete the paperwork, should it be necessary.
Furthermore, I suppose that most people use the git version of Evil (via melpa), so I'm not sure how important a GNU ELPA package would be. But if there is some interest in providing one I'm willing to do so.
I would appreciate a stable version in ELPA.
I'm also just a minor contributor without much legal knowledge, but I'd probably be fine with it. Are there any big disadvantages we should know about? Would the code just be in the GNU repository, or would it also ship with Emacs? There's more factors in this decision than trying to gain new users, but if Evil replaced Viper in the vanilla Emacs distribution we could probably lure more Vim users into trying it. On 7/11/14, Nikolai Weibull <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Frank Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:
Am 30.05.2014 17:46, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
I remember asking this a few years ago, but somehow I can't seem to find the answer. So here it is again: I think it would be great to include Evil in the GNU ELPA archive.
Would Evil's maintainers be interested in doing so? If yes, then please get in touch with me, so we can work out the details (which mostly have to do with copyright paperwork, since we have the same policy for GNU ELPA as for Emacs, to make it easy to move code between the two).
Well, I do not know of Vegard (I have not heard from him for some time now, but he contributed most parts of Evil), but for me it's ok. However, I do not really know anything about that legal stuff (neither what has to be done nor what its legal consequences are). And I do not know if all contributors agree, of course.
I don't know whether my minor contribution of the initial code for evil-digraph.el would make me a contributor, but I'm all for it. I'd gladly complete the paperwork, should it be necessary.
Furthermore, I suppose that most people use the git version of Evil (via melpa), so I'm not sure how important a GNU ELPA package would be. But if there is some interest in providing one I'm willing to do so.
I would appreciate a stable version in ELPA.
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I'm also just a minor contributor without much legal knowledge, but I'd probably be fine with it. Are there any big disadvantages we should know about? Would the code just be in the GNU repository, or would it also ship with Emacs? There's more factors in this decision than trying to gain new users, but if Evil replaced Viper in the vanilla Emacs distribution we could probably lure more Vim users into trying it.
Since Vile seems to be imposing itself as the most popular VI-like package in Emacs nowadays, it would make sense to include it in Emacs. But so far the main focus is on getting it into GNU ELPA. This said, the copyright rules we follow for GNU ELPA are specifically designed to make it easy to move code back and forth between Emacs and GNU ELPA, so once in GNU ELPA, moving the code into Emacs should be easy, if and when we want to do it. Stefan
I don’t know whether my minor contribution of the initial code for evil-digraph.el would make me a contributor, but I’m all for it. I’d gladly complete the paperwork, should it be necessary.
While most of it is a large table that could be auto-generated from other data (i.e. it's not a creative work), I think overall, your contributions aren't trivial, so yes, we'd need your copyright paperwork. If you're OK with it, please fill the form below and send it to the FSF so they can send you the relevant paperwork to sign. Stefan Please email the following information to [email protected], and we will send you the assignment form for your past and future changes. Please use your full legal name (in ASCII characters) as the subject line of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUEST: SEND FORM FOR PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES [What is the name of the program or package you're contributing to?] Emacs [Did you copy any files or text written by someone else in these changes? Even if that material is free software, we need to know about it.] [Do you have an employer who might have a basis to claim to own your changes? Do you attend a school which might make such a claim?] [For the copyright registration, what country are you a citizen of?] [What year were you born?] [Please write your email address here.] [Please write your postal address here.] [Which files have you changed so far, and which new files have you written so far?]
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