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

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 12/05/2020 13.15, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>  address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>  address@hidden
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 12:44:40 -0400
>>
>> On 12/05/2020 10.53, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> I think there was an agreement that providing a public API for
>>> checking this would be good.  But "Someone" needs to do that, and even
>>> after that not every situation could be resolved mechanically,
>>> certainly not at "git commit" time.  A human should be in the loop.
>>
>> My proposal is that this API should be the FSF signing public keys
> 
> I don't think I follow.  FSF is not a piece of software and not an
> API.  It is an organization.  How can an organization be an API?

With the scheme I propose, you don't need an API any more, I think (for 
properly signed commits).
You still have the same problem for old commits, of course.