Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade

[Bastien]

Hi Matthias,

Matthias Dahl <address@hidden> writes:

> But actually this should not affect the core code of Emacs itself - at
> all. That audience with a limited Lisp skillset should not get repo
> write access in the first place and everything handed in as a patch gets
> through the community review process and is commented upon. So there is
> a nice learning process for the Lisp initiate and QA for the stuff that
> gets into Emacs.

This is how I ended up in /etc/DEVEL.HUMOR (see at the bottom):
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/plain/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR?h=trunk

> Or am I overlooking something here?

Not really -- given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow, except
those bugs that do only exist for some super-eyes out there, I guess.

-- 
 Bastien