From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Spiers Subject: Re: Vacation, and 5.04. Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20070720152852.GC28297@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> References: <447897b77cbdd4bcfbe3f99b8a027203@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: Adam Spiers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBuPZ-0007UC-47 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:28:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBuPY-0007U0-7j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:28:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBuPY-0007Tx-1j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:28:56 -0400 Received: from mail.beimborn.com ([70.84.38.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBuPX-00017d-OB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:28:55 -0400 Received: from mail.beimborn.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l6KFSrU6010505 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:28:53 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by mail.beimborn.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id l6KFSr6C010499 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:28:53 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <447897b77cbdd4bcfbe3f99b8a027203@science.uva.nl> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:41:25PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to be offline for about 3 weeks. Thanks to > all of you for another year with a lot of fun here on > emacs-orgmode, I certainly get a kick out of this. I just joined this list a few days ago and was delighted to find such an active community, which I'm sure has had a lot to do with your participation. Hope you enjoy a well-deserved rest! > On my website I have put version 5.04 of org-mode, it contains > the latest bug fixes, but hardly any new features. As an exception > I am *not* uploading this version to CVS Emacs, to avoid the risk > that there will be a deadly bug that I cannot fix for 3 weeks. > > I know that there are a few bug reports and feature requests[1] that > I have not yet adressed. I will try to get to these after the break. > Please continue to report issues and to share your ideas here. > I will try to catch up later - even though, with the current flux > of posts (I love it), this will be daunting task. This might be a pertinent moment to bring up the topic of revision control ... or actually it might be a particularly bad moment, considering that the maintainer is about to vanish for 3 weeks! But I wanted to propose the idea of adopting a distributed revision control system. This would allow any individual coder to (amongst other benefits) easily create short-term feature branches or bugfix branches off Carsten's releases, share them publically with others for testing, and enable very low-cost merging back into the mainstream. To use the current situation as one example, this would mean that Carsten can relax happily on the beach (or wherever he is ;-) knowing that his absence is guaranteed *not* to hold any progress back, even if he decided to stay there for several months ;-) In case anyone's unfamiliar with the benefits of distributed revision control (vs. centralized, e.g. CVS/svn), enjoy this great talk by Linus Torvalds at google: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 It claims to be about git, but actually it's more about distributed revision control systems in general - everything he says applies to similar systems such as mercurial. > Enjoy the summer (if you are on the northern hemisphere....) I am, but still waiting for it to stop raining :-( Cheers, Adam