location of clocking out notes (was: Re: Release 9.0.5)

[Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>]

Hi Jorge, Bastien, org-mode developers,
* Jorge Morais Neto <jorge13515@gmail.com> [10. Feb. 2017]:
> On 10 February 2017 at 11:53, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Org 9.0.5, a minor bugfix release, is out.
> In Org 9.0.5, clock out notes are again stored below the corresponding
> clock line, restoring the behavior of an earlier release.  There were
> interim releases, up to 9.0.4, that stored the clock out notes /above/
> the clock line.

Is there a consensus now where the clocking out notes should go,
even in future versions?  I am affected from this too and before
I start changing the position of all the clocking out notes I
would like to know where to move them.

> Users should be warned to fix clock out notes taken by
> affected Org releases.  Existing important data following the interim
> convention need to be fixed, transposing each affected clock out note
> with the clock line.  If both conventions are mixed, then, to identify
> which clock line corresponds to each clock out note, either the user
> will need to remember the time period when they used an affected
> release, or remember directly which clock out line corresponds to each
> ambiguous note, or analise the version history of their Org files.  So
> the longer the user takes to address the problem, the greater the
> chance of data loss.  I think this issue is important.
> 
> Could we provide an Elisp function to fix this semi-automatically?

This would be great.

Ciao, Gregor
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