[Pkg-emacsen-addons] wc-mode (and two pkg-emacsen questions)

[Nicholas Steeves]

Hi Sean and pkg-emacsen team,

Antoine's recent RFPs inspired me to start work on a a mini-project I've 
been thinking of for a while.  Skip to the topic sentence of the last 
paragraph for the one-line synopsis.  Word count of the buffer (or of a 
region) is one of those killer features for anyone who is trying their 
hardest to meet a deadline, and elpa-wc-mode seems to be the best way to 
get that in the modeline.

From what I've read about the freeze policy it cannot be unblocked.  Given 
this, I'd like to maintain the stretch-bpo along packages I'm working on 
for stretch+1 as part of my mini project.  I know it's early, but is there 
such things as ITMB (intent to maintain backport)?

Also, how should packages that must be uploaded to experimental during a 
freeze be pushed to pkg-emacsen?  I'm guessing that I should initially push 
my work as changelog UNRELEASED...  Then, should master's changelog 
maintain an UNRELEASED distribution and should experimental have it's own 
temporary branch?  Or maybe the experimental branch should merge from 
master, dch -r -D experimental, commit, build, tag, and then only the tag 
is pushed?  For that to work, should the version be changed from 1.0-1 to 
something like 1.0-1~experimental?  
Based on https://release.debian.org/stretch/freeze_policy.html I'm unclear 
if elpafied packages can still be uploaded to unstable, so I'm assuming 
experimental.  Please let me know if this isn't the case.

I've pushed preliminary writeroom-mode and writegood-mode packaging to new 
pkg-emacsen repos.

The mini-project is emacs for professional, technical, and creative 
writing.  I first started using it for this, strangely enough, because it 
took me too long to learn about remapping the right alt key to compose...so 
I wrote a couple terms worth of French papers in emacs with the 
latin-1-prefix input method :-)  Also, like many I had already fallen  in 
love with one of my university's Sun Ultra-5 workstations customised 
.Xresources, .emacs.el, and a bunch of nicely tuned and automatic modes 
which set everything up perfectly for maximum productivity (that was for 
CompSci of course)...I wonder how many of us got hooked like this?

Cheers,
Nicholas
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