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Bug#920383: RFP: elpa-git-gutter-fringe -- provide git diff alongside opened files in Emacs



Hi Antoine,

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 04:43:26PM -0700, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 05:09:43PM -0500, Antoine Beaupre wrote:
> > 
> > This would probably require packaging `git-gutter` first, as it's a
> > dependency. I think.
> > 
> > I would love if the emacsen team would magically handle all of
> > this. :) I have tried the package as installed from package.el and
> > it's pretty awesome.
> 
> I've pushed preliminary packaging for git-gutter (but not fringe) here:
>   https://salsa.debian.org/sten-guest/emacs-git-gutter/
> 
> Git-related self-tests fail due to this:
>   https://github.com/syohex/emacs-git-gutter/issues/159
> 
> ...but the package seems to work fine.
> 
> If someone else wants to work on this RFP for buster, please go
> ahead.  Failing that I'll resume work on it later (feel free to remind
> me if I seem too slow).
> 

As requested, here are the reasons I am not pursuing this ITP:

1. Git-gutter is effectively orphaned (upstream repo is in
   emacsorphanage project)
2. Upstream is not responsive to inquiries nor bugfix requests.  Over
   a year of latency:
   https://github.com/emacsorphanage/git-gutter/issues/156#issuecomment-460029482
3. Git-gutter might be totally unsupported upstream, eg: in the last
   comment of the above issue "This package is no longer supported".
4. I didn't integrate the use of this package into my workflow and
   don't want to be responsible for something I don't use without
   upstream support, and especially don't want to become defacto
   upstream under these conditions.

Consequently, I'm not the person for this job.
Sorry,
Nicholas

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