About GNU ELPA
GNU ELPA is one of the two default package archives of GNU Emacs. The other default package archive is NonGNU ELPA. Package archives host Emacs Lisp packages that you can easily install and update within Emacs. You can view the list of packages included in this archive here or via M-x list-packages in Emacs.
To report a bug, use the M-x report-emacs-bug command in Emacs. For more information on reporting bugs, see the Emacs Manual. To report package-specific bugs, prefer using M-x package-report-bug.
Note for Emacs<27 users
Older releases of Emacs require the user to manually initializepackage.el. Add the following line to
your init
file to ensure installed packages are activated at startup:
(unless (fboundp 'package-activate-all)
(package-initialize))Ranking
The package index includes a Rank
, representing the
percentile
ranking packages from most to least downloaded over the last week. We
gather the data from the web server logs, so the result is not
necessarily representative to actual human traffic, but should give
you a rough approximating how popular a package is relative to the
other packages in this archive.
ELPA-devel
By default all packages on ELPA are built and published when the
maintainer makes a release. The assumption is therefore that all
packages on ELPA should be stable
, but it is the maintainers
responsibility to ensure this.
Contrasting this, -devel
(as
in development) archives build and publish tarballs for each
package every time maintainers publish changes that the ELPA build
server detects. This can be useful if you are keen on following
upstream development of a package and getting updates as soon as
possible.
For maintainers, this can also be useful to get a preview of how your package will look like before a release is cut.
Contact
If you need help, you could try the help-gnu-emacs mailing list. For general inquiries, please contact the emacs-devel mailing list. For questions about specific packages, it is likely best to contact the package maintainers directly.