Re: org-jira.el

["Bao Haojun" <baohaojun@gmail.com>]

Thank you!

Jonathan Arkell <jonathana@criticalmass.com> writes:

> Wow Bao!  I am just checking out your org-jira2 project right now...
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> Your thing was what my thing (contrib/lisp/org-jira.el) was going to
> become when I got the time... Then I got put on a project that didn't use
> Jira, and abandoned it (as mentioned earlier).
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> So yea, Bastien, Bao, and anyone else for that matter, go ahead and do
> what you like with that trivial piece of code. Rename it, delete it, fold
> it into the new library.
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> Ironically enough, years later, I am back on a project that does use
> Jira.. :)
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> On 5/01/12 7:42 AM, "Bao Haojun" <baohaojun@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>>
>>> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> The current contrib/lisp/org-jira.el is pretty trivial: it just defines
>>>> a jira link type, so maybe it can be integrated into the new
>>>>org-jira.el,
>>>> instead of having two of them lying around.
>>>
>>> Agreed.  In the same vein, perhaps jira2.el and jira.el could be merged
>>> into one single library.
>>
>>Agreed. I have not looked into org-mode source code yet, so do not know
>>about contrib/lisp/org-jira.el, but I think it is the same one on
>>emacswiki, which has been abandoned by its author. So, it will be
>>trivial to merge its functionality.
>>
>>You are also right that jira2.el and jira.el can be merged,
>>theoretically. The jira2.el, as a library, is a superset of jira.el in
>>terms of functionality, since jira2.el uses soap, while jira.el uses
>>xml-rpc; and soap is better supported by jira than xml-rpc.
>>
>>The difficulty lies in that jira.el is also a major mode (in addition to
>>providing the library for the major mode). To make sure backward
>>compatible will require some effort. Jira2.el, OTOH, has stopped to be a
>>major mode, and only provided library for (the new) org-jira.el.
>>
>>Anyway, I will try to update jira.el and contact the original author to
>>see if he agrees.
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