From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Aur=C3=A9lien_Aptel?= Subject: Org-sync status Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:34:53 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPTN2-0005tl-V4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:34:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZPTN0-00031b-L8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:34:56 -0400 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 , nashco@tcd.ie, Albert Krewinkel , Bastien , S V N Vishwanathan , dlbeswick@gmail.com, daimrod@gmail.com, Arthur Leonard Andersen , Joseph Kiniry , "Antoine R. Dumont" , =?UTF-8?B?0JzQsNC60YHQuNC8?= , Andrei Beliankou Hello to org-mode mailing list subscribers & people CC'd in this email, I'm not interested in maintaining org-sync anymore. I've tried to continue but it just doesn't interest me anymore, I can't find the motivation and I rarely use bugtrackers. I think there are too many design issues with org-sync. I personally think org-mode is not restrictive enough as a format and UI to work (at large scale) with bugtrackers. I should have made this email a long time ago. Anyway it seems many people are interested in org-sync so I'll make a list of the people who contacted me over the years (cc'd) so that you can try to work something out, maybe. Conor Nash added basic support for Asana and has contacted me to merge it. I was going to handle it and promptly forgot about it instead. This was a bit more than 2 year ago. Albert Krewinkel made some modifications and wanted some feedback but he never sent anything after I told him org-sync was doomed. This was 2 year ago too. Bastien tried to motivate me to continue and asked me to try to write about the problems I've faced so that people could focus on them, etc. I agree that would be great but I've completely lost interest in it and don't remember what was bothering me specifically... I just think org is too general and free-formed to be robust and practical for bugtrackers. S V N Vishwanathan contacted me 2 years ago about a google task backend he started and some problem he had. He got pretty far and had to hack a bit the org-sync API to get it to work. I told him I'll look at it some more to see it if there was a cleaner way to implement it but I never got around to it. David Beswick sent a small patch to fix something in the redmine backend. I think Daimrod worked on it and has a github repo [1]. I've found an email on the org-mode mailing list from him saying he was interested with having write access on the official repo. Not much news since then. Arthur Leonard Andersen (author of elmine) contacted me last year about improving the redmine backend. Joseph Kiniry contacted me last year about the redmine backend, he also wanted to maintain org-sync as his company could "sponsor" it. Not much since then. And finally, Andrei Beliankou has recently made a github repo and has worked on it. It looks like the more advanced fork out there so you should probably go there now. I might have forgotten about other people... Also, things to do/keep in mind: - the page/docs have to be updated. It's not even accessible from the org-mode website anymore it seems. - someone has to contact the person in charge of the official git repo rights in order to pass the flame to someone else. Or just add people I don't know. Or just switch everything to github. Cheers! 1: https://github.com/daimrod/org-sync 2: https://github.com/arbox/org-sync