I agree that MELPA is mostly a good thing. However, even if the software there works fine, that doesn't address the criticisms of MELPA that the author talks ab

I agree that MELPA is mostly a good thing. However, even if the software there works fine, that doesn't address the criticisms of MELPA that the author talks about in his article: version numbers, rebuild times, effort and abuse to add a stable designated version. (The author of the article makes elpy, an excellent Python development environment, where occasionally, a component gets modernized. This is the case right now with the refactoring logic. MELPA gives you a broken elpy, joergen has no reasonable way to override it even for people who also subscribe to his personal package index, etc. :-))