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+Hello! My name is Philip,
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+and I'll be giving a brief update on
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+NonGNU ELPA.
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+Before we begin,
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+let's first make sure
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+everyone's on the same page.
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+What is NonGNU ELPA?
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+Put simply, NonGNU ELPA
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+is a new Emacs Lisp package archive.
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+similar to its sister archive, GNU ELPA.
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+The main difference is that
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+GNU ELPA regards each package in the archive 
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+to be part of Emacs itself.
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+This means each significant contributor
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+has to have signed their copyrights
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+to the Free Software Foundation.
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+NonGNU ELPA is made for packages
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+that cannot ensure this condition.
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+The immediate consequence of all of this
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+is that more packages can be installed
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+out of the box.
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+All you need to install,
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+for example, magit, evil-mode, slime,
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+is a simple M-x package-install.
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+The more subtle consequence
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+is that ELPA distributes 
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+stable packages by default.
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+This differs from, for example,
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+the community-maintained package archive MELPA, 
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+where each change in the respective package repository
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+triggers a new package to be rebuilt.
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+Of course, "stable" here has to be taken
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+with a grain of salt because,
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+on the one hand, 
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+a package maintainer can be very careful
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+to avoid buggy code in their default branch,
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+and on the other hand,
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+a package maintainer can be too eager 
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+to tag a new release
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+without properly checking
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+that the code works as intended.
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+My personal hope is that
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+more people using NonGNU ELPA
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+be incentive for increase 
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+for package development to shift away
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+from the currently predominant
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+rolling release model,
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+improving the overall stability
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+of Emacs configurations.
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+Another side effect of the initiative
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+is a chance to clean up
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+the Emacs package space.
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+Over the last few years,
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+a lot of packages have been abandoned,
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+have been broken, duplicated, 
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+or even in some cases,
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+replaced by functionality in Emacs itself.
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+When reviewing packages for NonGNU ELPA,
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+the opportunity to avoid these problems
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+will hopefully also improve the general quality
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+of Emacs packages.
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+So, what is this update about?
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+I'm taking Richard Stallman's announcement
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+at EmacsConf 2020
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+as my reference point.
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+There, the idea, the history,
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+and the motivation was explained,
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+and the call for contributions was made.
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+I won't be going into these aspects
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+again this year.
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+As this implies, there was nothing concrete
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+at that point.
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+The first practical steps towards NonGNU ELPA
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+were taken up by Stefan Monnier.
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+This included updating GNU ELPA's build system
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+to support the requirements 
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+of NonGNU ELPA as well.
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+And so eventually, 
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+the idea became a Git repository,
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+nongnu.git on savannah,
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+then a website,
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+elpa.nongnu.org,
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+and then around late December of last year,
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+NonGNU ELPA was also added
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+to the package-archives list.
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+Sadly, progress stalled from this point on,
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+with the new archive consisting of only
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+five or six packages.
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+It took until August
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+for more packages to be added,
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+some by their respective authors,
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+such as Magit and Projectile,
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+but most by contributors such as myself.
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+As of recording, 
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+the archive has around 70 packages,
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+with more pending to be out soon.
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+These include popular applications
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+such as the previously-mentioned Magit,
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+SLIME, or wgrep,
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+major modes like php-mode, rust-mode,
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+go-mode, clojure-mode, lua-mode,
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+markdown-mode... You get my point.
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+And a number of visual themes,
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+among other things.
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+If you are interested in using NonGNU ELPA,
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+but you are still bound 
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+to an older version of Emacs,
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+all you have to do is
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+to add the snippet
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+from the NonGNU ELPA home page
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+updating the package-archives variable.
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+For Emacs 28 and newer,
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+one might have to watch out 
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+that you're not setting package-archives directly,
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+and if you are doing so,
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+to update the value.
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+Emacs 28 only updates the default value
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+and will not manipulate the user's configuration.
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+Finally, a short note
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+for package developers.
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+Most packages up until now
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+haven't been added by their maintainers.
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+For the most part,
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+I have been collecting and reviewing the packages
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+which have been added,
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+which takes time
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+and is one of the main reasons
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+why we're still at only 70 packages.
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+This is of course not a permanent solution.
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+The intention here is 
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+to bootstrap, so to say,
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+the interest in NonGNU ELPA
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+by making it more interesting to you
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+and thus more interesting to contribute to.
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+If you are interested in adding a package
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+that already exists, or a new package
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+to NonGNU ELPA, all you need to do is
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+send an e-mail to the 
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+Emacs development mailing list,
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+emacs-devel@gnu.org.
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+This is an open mailing list
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+and requires no special registration.
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+Your message should 
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+mention NonGNU ELPA in the subject
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+and contain a link to a public Git repository
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+in the body. Ideally, a brief explanation
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+on what your package does
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+would be much appreciated.
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+The proposal will be reviewed
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+by the readers of the mailing list,
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+and after a bit of back-and-forth
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+on possible issues and improvements,
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+the package will hopefully be added
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+to NonGNU ELPA itself.
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+The simplest mistake a lot of packages make
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+is to either not have 
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+or maintain a version attribute
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+in the package header.
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+This is done despite actually being necessary
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+for a well-formed Emacs package
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+according to the Elisp manual.
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+ELPA relies on this tag
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+to detect new package versions
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+that will be built and distributed.
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+If the version isn't updated,
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+no new package will be released,
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+and any changes won't be made public.
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+So, that's that on NonGNU ELPA.
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+To summarize, NonGNU ELPA is an
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+Emacs Lisp Package Archive for Emacs,
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+without a need for copyright assignments.
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+It works, it exists, and it's been used already.
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+I'm looking forward to
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+more packages being added to the archive
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+and improving the overall experience
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+of Emacs out of the box.
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+Thank you for your interest, and goodbye.
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+[captioned by sachac]