The following notes are probably totally incorrect and in no way authoritative.
** conclusions - melpa does not use the packages versions but timestamps. That breaks dependencies? We don't consider melpa as a useful metadata source. ** easy decisions - prefix: elpa- at least for those packages that use dh_elpa if you're installing into site-list/elpa, than you should elpa- - We use one git repository for every upstream package - We keep the upstream source in the packaging git repository - We'd like to set up pet for our team - We want to have our own namespace and group for git repositories: "pkg-emacs" (probably ask [email protected] before settling) - David wants to look into providing an --with-elpa option for dh? ** further questions - Why doesn't the trigger mechanism work for us to byte-compile? - What is el-get? Is it helpful for us?

