From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA policy Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:27:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr>> <5640C6A0.5010709@yandex.ru>> <83twovm9es.fsf@gnu.org> > <868u65afvh.fsf@stephe-leake.org> > <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> > <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org>> > Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447284605 29392 80.91.229.3 (11 Nov 2015 23:30:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 00:29:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwepv-0007tJ-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 00:29:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwepu-0007XW-G3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:29:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwepM-00070j-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:29:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwep5-00045d-AJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:29:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwent-0003i4-WC; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwent-0000bG-9i; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:27:49 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:23:33 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194173 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Since pulling in data from the Web indiscriminately is not > possible for this project (we have to make sure we're not > unwittingly including code without a proper copyright assignment), > perhaps we need as an "integrator": someone willing to guide the > update of ELPA from various sources on the Web, keeping an eye out > for changes that might affect copyright. What we need to solve Drew's problem is to merge changes into a few specific files from a specific place, and commit them using git. Isn't that easy enough to do? There could be one page where he provides the commit log info. Whenever that page changes (we could check every 5 minutes), our demon could merge in all the files which have changed. They it would email the diffs to Drew so he could confirm what he installed. Thus, when Drew wants to install a new version, he would change the other pages first, then write the change log text into the log page. Then wait 5 minutes and it's done. This is assuming there are no other obstacles aside from the mechanics of installing changes into our repository. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.