Re: source repository

[Richard Stallman]

      How many developers are in this boat, I don't
    know.  Can Emacs afford to ignore even one?

There's more at stake here than a few developers more or less.
And some of it is imponderable, such as this:

    [1]  Of course this would require some work by FSF legal, but I see no
    reason why it would be impossible to write an appropriate assignment
    instrument, and enforce it with appropriate commit hooks.

To think about this would take a lot of time, and it would be easy
to be wrong.  There is no need to spend time and take a risk
where nothing is actually broken.

The easy thing to do is to stay with CVS, so we will do that.

I will ask the savannah hackers and sysadmins to look at making
port 443 access available again.  That would help some people
and doesn't raise any hard issues.