From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: ~protesilaos/general-issues@lists.sr.ht
Subject: Sourcehut mailing lists in package metadata
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 10:20:21 +0000
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Hi Prot,

I wanted to suggest adding the mailing list addresses to your packages,
by replacing your personal address in the maintainer field with the
sourcehut address.  E.g. like how I do here for my package[0].  A number
of recent Sourcehut packages added to ELPA have followed this
recommendation, and I think it is useful to have the address listed in a
*Help* buffer when querying information about it using C-h P.

Of course if you don't want to, this is fine, but as you are currently
probably the most popular Emacs package developer on Sourcehut, I think
it would be good to set an example.

(I also mention this because I had been working on extensions to
package.el[1] that would make it easier to contribute patches upstream,
and this would also rely on a sensible "Maintainer" header.  Of course
your private address would work just as well, but I believe that using
the public mailing lists would be preferable?)

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~pkal/compat/tree/master/item/compat.el#L6
[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?h=feature/package%2bvc