From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Org-mode development (was: Vacation, and 5.04)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:57:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bad43245b0ca498637388a9e00723b0f@science.uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070720152852.GC28297@atlantic.linksys.moosehall>
On Jul 20, 2007, at 17:28, Adam Spiers wrote:
> 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 ;-)
Now we are talking..... :-)
> 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.
Thanks for this enjoyable link - lots of fun to watch Linus like this.
I'd like to make some comments about the development model or Org-mode
and put it up here for discussion.
- Org-mode is part of Emacs - this means that I can only accept patches
from people who have signed the appropriate papers with the FSF. You
might have noticed in the past that I usually don't simply apply a
patch. I change it considerably or re-implement the feature, to make
sure that we will not run into copyright issues. If you want to
contribute to org-mode and make life easy for me, write to
assign@gnu.org and ask for the paperwork to become a contributor to
org-mode in Emacs, and let me know what you have done so so that I
can start to use your patches directly.
- The second reason why I often don't apply patches exactly as submitted
is because I see my role in filtering and shaping features so that
they fit exactly into the feel and look of Org-mode as I see it.
I don't want it to loose focus.
You might see this as a good thing, but you could also see this
as slowing down development.
- I have never used git or a similar distributed tool - so I would
have to learn how to use them.
Thanks for your comments.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 13:41 Vacation, and 5.04 Carsten Dominik
2007-07-20 14:19 ` Rick Moynihan
2007-07-20 14:40 ` Georg C. F. Greve
2007-07-20 15:28 ` Adam Spiers
2007-08-16 6:57 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2007-08-16 8:42 ` Org-mode development (was: Vacation, and 5.04) Christian Egli
2007-09-01 9:34 ` Adam Spiers
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