From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In Support of ELPA Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:50:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eftmejer.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87wp7ccnz6.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87bmonnxoc.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500169964 11474 195.159.176.226 (16 Jul 2017 01:52:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 01:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 16 03:52:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYja-0002TL-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 03:52:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYjg-0003Qz-1Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:52:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYil-0003Ps-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:51:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYik-0002Jm-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:51:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYhr-0001aY-MB; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dWYhr-0006SE-6N; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:50:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <87bmonnxoc.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216710 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. ]]] > > 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. -- 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.