From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: vc-fossil to non-gnu elpa? Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3432"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 06:17:03 2021 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 1kx1Bv-0000ho-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 06:17:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43532 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx1Bu-0006K6-0U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx1Af-0005bj-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53316) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx1Af-0002dB-0q; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kx1Ad-0005uT-BI; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:15:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:50:01 -0500) 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:262578 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. ]]] > > > That doesn't need to happen beforehand. > > To postpone it is running a risk. > Every choice entails a risk. This is a question of tradeoffs. I know by experience that the risk of assuming someone will do something and not verifying this by asking per is substantial. If we have hundreds of such packages in NonGNU ELPA, I expect that each year will will have several painful surprises that we will have to clean up. I insist on this. -- 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)