>Not necessarily: we could fetch code exclusively from Savannah repositories set up to give all Emacs devs commit rights. > >If anything, this would be safer: at the moment, anyone who has a package in ELPA can edit all other packages in ELPA. In the architecture that I propose, Emacs committers could edit all Emacs packages, but ordinary package authors would only be able to make changes to their own packages. > >And it would be simpler for package authors: just a matter of registering your package on Savannah and adding a remote to your existing repository. This seem to be a good idea, if it is true, many package maintainer may use repo on Savannah as main repo,