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From: Matthias Dahl <matthias.dahl@binary-island.eu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:10:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52499473.50707@binary-island.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y56gymvz.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com>

Hello...

> I would propose using the signature files above to provide that wall,
> so auto-signing should not be done.  Instead a maintainer team should
> review changes that need to go up on the GNU ELPA.

Ted, that would be really nice to have but as it was brought up earlier
in this thread, this is not gonna happen. And I can honestly understand
why it can't happen. The amount of manpower required to really do this
properly, is not something that could be easily shouldered by a team of
trusted volunteers in a timely manner.

So long,
Matthias

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23  7:30 security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade Matthias Dahl
2013-09-23 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25  8:11   ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 17:00     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 18:31       ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 22:42         ` Bastien
2013-09-26  9:02           ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:02             ` Bastien
2013-09-27 14:17               ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:19                 ` Bastien
2013-09-27 18:29                   ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26  1:09         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26  9:02           ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26  9:21             ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-26 14:41             ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27 14:17               ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:47                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-28 14:15                   ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-30 15:12                     ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-30 21:11                       ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-30 15:31                   ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26  1:12         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-26  9:02           ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27  7:10             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 14:18               ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 17:31                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:25                   ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-01  2:19                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 20:12                 ` chad
2013-09-26  9:31           ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-26 16:25           ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-27 14:18             ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:04               ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-13 17:57                 ` Thomas Koch
2013-09-29 10:12             ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29  9:53   ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29 17:49     ` Daiki Ueno
2013-09-29 18:18       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 13:25         ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 14:50           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:10     ` Matthias Dahl [this message]
2013-09-30 17:18       ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-01 14:03         ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-02  2:45           ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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