From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Koch Subject: Re: [wish] also provide documentation for contrib Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:03:29 +0200 Message-ID: <201210121103.31473.thomas@koch.ro> References: <201210071901.43527.thomas@koch.ro> <87ipam6tt3.fsf@tajo.ucsd.edu> Reply-To: thomas@koch.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMb9v-00071t-4H for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:04:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMb9l-0002kW-Ez for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:03:55 -0400 Received: from koch.ro ([88.198.2.104]:45070) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TMb9l-0002k1-9F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:03:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ipam6tt3.fsf@tajo.ucsd.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Cc: cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu: > ,----[from contrib/README] > > | These contributions are not part of GNU Emacs or of the official > | Org-mode package. But the git repository for Org-mode is glad to > | provide useful way to distribute and develop them as long as they are > | distributed under a free software license. > > Maybe > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html > is what you need? Hi Chuck, I know that org-drill has its own webpage with good documentation. The point is, that the Debian maintainer (or Fedora, Gentoo, ...) just takes the org- mode tarball and packages everything found in there. It would be an extra burden for the maintainer to go out to every single contrib site and somehow add the documentation in the package. It would be much easier IMHO, if the org-mode developers would not only distribute the code of contribs but also their documentation. I would even say that distributing code without documentation is kind of a bug. It would even be an extra advantage, if you could encourage the contrib developers to provide documentation in info format. Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro