Re: Improving GNU ELPA

[Phillip Lord]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> [[[ 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. ]]]
>
>   > With dash, I can push to elpa, but not to upstream. So, changes occuring
>   > to dash on ELPA, have to be pulled onto a branch, turned into a PR for
>   > dash.
>
> The reason I say we should have admin access to the real repository
> is to avoid problem situations like this one.

As I said, it doesn't avoid the problem, it just changes the nature of
that problem. As Stefan has said, at the moment, dealing with these
issues is, anyway, consider the problem of the upstream person. The
presence of push rights changes nothing if you do not use them.

Phil