From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs? Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 23:17:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9mmFgzvrBwjt_n_VJyaJdXINraNi5HsGpwq-0MLeKiJA7kG2BQA4uywrzjyz7lpRS0OZDpjEi8lspOKYUA7P_QsODsDew_8nbH960G55fmY=@protonmail.com> <97DA7804-F647-4A1D-B8E0-AFFE7A324C64@gmail.com> <87d07xamrg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878silajdl.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87tv18pyh4.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83blmu9u57.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="97160"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eric@ericabrahamsen.net, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, ndame@protonmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 05:20:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLSn-000P5m-Fp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 12 May 2020 05:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49274 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLSm-0003p5-Fu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:20:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLPz-0007M0-Mt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58349) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLPy-0004Rs-72; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jYLPm-0004DC-3X; Mon, 11 May 2020 23:17:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83blmu9u57.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 11 May 2020 21:57:40 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249928 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. ]]] > I think you are missing the main point. The problem is not security, > it is correct attribution. The author of the committed changeset (not > the person who does the commit, the author) must be the person who > actually wrote the code, not someone else. If that someone else is a > real benevolent person, it is still a problem, because we will make a > false presentation that a different person made the change. We do our best to avoid errors of this sort, but our current systems don'tmake errors absolutely impossible. Can we make Clement's proposal as reliable as our current non-automated system? I don't see, off-hand, why that would be impossible. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)