Re: Updating Worg: call to Worg authors

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On 23.4.2013, at 22:57, Jay Kerns <gjkernsysu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I started some work on this and pushed a worg-new-exporter branch to
> Worg.  I followed Carsten's advice which I will repeat here for
> convenience:




Hi Jay,

thank you and John for getting this started.

- Carsten

> 
> Given an existing Worg repository obtained by
> 
> $ git clone worg@orgmode.org:worg.git
> 
> Everybody else can hook onto this branch with
> 
> $ git checkout --track -b worg-new-exporter origin/worg-new-exporter
> 
> and then work in this branch and push it whenever they want.  Note you
> will need commit access to the worg repository at orgmode.org; see
> here for more info:
> 
> http://orgmode.org/worg/worg-git.html
> 
> After checking out the worg-new-exporter branch you will find a file
> 
> worgmap.org
> 
> in the root of the repository.  This file has headlines for every
> single file/directory on Worg current as of last night some
> time. Worgmap.org has TODO entries so we can keep track of what is
> DONE, what is TODO, what is INPROGRESS, etc. We can also add AUTHOR
> properties, etc, to help the update proceed smoothly.
> 
> 
> CALL TO WORG AUTHORS:
> 
> - Please checkout the worg-new-exporter branch and update those files
>  which are yours.
> - Please mark DONE or INPROGRESS files in worgmap.org.
> - If you cannot or are not able to update your files, please say so on
>  the mailing list so other volunteers can update them instead.
>  Alternatively, you can mark your files as ABANDONED in worgmap.org.
> 
> 
> If you know of ways to streamline this update process, please feel
> free to speak up and/or move forward with it immediately.  There are
> ~700 files on Worg to be checked, so we have a nontrivial job ahead
> of us.
> 
> Thanks to John Hendy for some offlist brainstorming and advice - I
> think worgmap.org is much better as a result.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jay
> 
> P.S. I did a once-over to mark obvious things like *.png, *.pdf,
> etc. as DONE.  I tried to be sparing to avoid false positives, though
> I could have made some mistakes. Please fix any errors you find.
> 
> P.P.S. I inadvertently deleted a few directory names from the list when
> I first started work.  This should be harmless, but if you notice
> something missing feel free to add it back for completeness.
>