Re: Why are so many great packages not trying to get included in GNU Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 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)
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