From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Engster Subject: Re: Sync up the org in emacs master to org maint branch? Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 17:30:57 +0100 Message-ID: <877f55j4u6.fsf@engster.org> References: <87k29d7zvw.fsf@engster.org> <87efzk2xg8.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59231) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ca3F7-00041c-PQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:31:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ca3F4-0005qt-LP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:31:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Thu, 02 Feb 2017 21:01:49 -0500") 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" To: Edward John Steere Cc: Bastien Guerry , Kaushal Modi , Phillip Lord , emacs-org list , Emacs developers John Wiegley writes: > Many software projects have package ecosystems surrounding them that deal with > similar issues, and I can't, off-hand, think of cases where the answer was > "let's move some of those packages into core development to ease > ___". Just from the software I worked with over the years, I remember KDevelop, Typo3, Drupal and MediaWiki moving plugins to core. It's really not uncommon. I still use Drupal, and moving important plugins to core has made updates *much* less brittle. I just wish Jenkins would do the same already... -David