Re: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs 25.3 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 10:48:49 +0200
> 
> On Sep 13 2017, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The full source is in the tarball, and the change was posted in advance.
> > How can a Git branch increase the trust is beyond me.
> >
> > This certainly smells of NIH etc.
> 
> It's about ignoring best practices.

They were not ignored.  And we don't have "best practices" for such a
contingency, at least not yet.