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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stable releases
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:00:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj1nf3pr.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20150818204009.GW25378@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com

Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:36:00PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>
>> the main reason why 8.3 was not as "stable" as it should have been is
>> that I've been releasing it too quickly, after having been inactive
>> way too long.
>>
>> It's kind of a miracle that Org development could continue without an
>> active "official" maintainer for so long, and we owe a lot to Nicolas
>> and other contributors for this.
>
> Bastien,
>
> As a Org user since 2006 I've watched and appreciated how much time
> and effort yourself and Carsten have put into maintainership. This
> significant commitment brings about the following question:
>
> Is Org large enough that it would benefit from being broken into more
> pieces?
>
> For instance a stable core that includes only the major mode itself,
> which you continue to maintain. This defines the file syntax and
> includes core features which require little to no external programs or
> libraries.
>
> Then could you break out the exporters, babel, and many of the other
> sub-features into "plugins" that could be maintained separately by
> others, and they depend back to the core version?
>
> My impression has been that the core Org functionality has been stable
> for quite a while, and the org ecosystem grows by leaps and bounds as
> new users expand the incredibly flexible syntax to work for their use
> case.

It's nice to have "batteries included".  This is also the strength of
programming languages such as python, emacs-lisp, and to a lesser extend
R.

One data point: I can absolutely not be bothered using anything that is
not at least in contrib.

Rasmus

-- 
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-11 17:18 Stable releases Scott Randby
2015-08-11 18:33 ` Ista Zahn
2015-08-11 19:34   ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-11 20:56 ` Rasmus
2015-08-12 16:14   ` Scott Randby
2015-08-12 13:39 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-12 14:38   ` Peter Salazar
2015-08-12 15:57   ` Scott Randby
2015-08-12 22:56     ` Rasmus
2015-08-18 16:44   ` Bastien
2015-08-18 17:30     ` Bastien
2015-08-12 17:37 ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-12 19:06   ` Scott Randby
2015-08-13  9:32     ` Eric S Fraga
2015-08-13 13:28       ` Scott Randby
2015-08-18 17:36 ` Bastien
2015-08-18 17:52   ` Scott Randby
2015-08-18 20:40   ` Russell Adams
2015-08-18 22:26     ` Bastien
2015-08-19 20:00     ` Rasmus [this message]
2015-08-20 23:03       ` Bastien
2015-08-20 23:56         ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-21  7:21           ` Suvayu Ali
2015-08-22 17:32             ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-22 17:44               ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-22 17:55                 ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-22 18:00                   ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-22 18:23                     ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-22 18:53                       ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-22 18:57                         ` Achim Gratz
2015-08-22 19:06                           ` Thomas S. Dye
2015-08-21 18:37         ` Rasmus
2015-08-19  8:51   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-19  9:36     ` Bastien
2015-08-19 14:51       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-19 19:57   ` Rasmus
2016-01-17 10:12 ` Losing trust in Org: stable org-mode releases and unit tests for basic functionality Karl Voit
2016-01-17 10:30   ` Achim Gratz
2016-01-18 13:47     ` Karl Voit
2016-01-17 13:41   ` Marco Wahl
2016-01-18 14:06     ` Karl Voit
2016-01-19  9:00       ` Marco Wahl

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