From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: In Support of ELPA
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:50:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1dWYhr-0006SE-6N@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmonnxoc.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk)
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> > The difference is whether the Emacs maintainers have write access
> > to those sources in their main repository.
> Personally, I think this is not necessary. The Emacs maintainers can use
> PRs if they need to.
We need to have write access directly so that we can install changes
directly without depending on anyone else. But not solely write access.
We need administrative access too. When other people send PRs, we need
to be able to receive them.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-16 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-11 21:46 In Support of ELPA Phillip Lord
2017-07-11 22:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-12 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-13 12:23 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 15:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-07-13 22:02 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-13 16:15 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 10:02 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-16 1:50 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2017-07-17 14:05 ` Phillip Lord
2017-07-14 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-14 6:48 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2017-07-15 1:35 ` Richard Stallman
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