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  • Email isn’t “the only way” to send patches. In fact, he addresses that:

    It doesn’t have to be by email, either. Any method of sending this data to the maintainer is fine. For example, I’m on Mastodon – so you could send me a repository URL via Mastodon if you really wanted to (provided you didn’t mind my responses being very short). Or you could send patches via any other communications medium that you and the maintainer are both on, if it lets you attach files to messages.

    His preferred method is just sending a URL over email. You can use any communication method if you both already have an account.


  • They would just be removed from the line up succession. We’ve had cabinet members who were ineligible for the presidency, and they were just not considered as in the line of succession, even though they otherwise would be.

    Edit: here’s the text of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947

    (b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

    Note that it explicitly mentions the Speaker failing to qualify for the presidency