Re: [ANN] Merge of new export framework on Wednesday

[David Bjergaard <dbjergaard@gmail.com>]

Detlef Steuer <detlef.steuer@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Nicolas!
>
> Great news and I'm really looking forward using the new exporter, but:
>
>
>> 
>>   3. Export section from Org manual is now obsolete.  It is being
>>      rewritten, but until this task is completed, your best source of
>>      information will still be the ML or the source files.
>> 
>> 
>
> I rely on orgmode for my homepage at work. If that stops just working
> without helping documentation that's "no good", at least for me ... 
>
> Is there already a draft of docs available? 
>
> One point to pull me over from vim to emacs was the fantastic documentation of
> orgmode. Now I'm sitting here a bit fearful of losing the great tool
> for an undetermined period of time. 
>
> If there are no docs at all I, as a simple user, would suggest to
> postpone the release till after some usage notes are available. 
>
> Alternatively keep the old exporter alive , please, till the new one
> has documentation. (or the migration path has documentation) 
>
> Anyway thanks for all your work!
>
> Just 2c
> Detlef

Hi Detlef,

If you rely on org-mode for some production-level things, wouldn't it be
most prudent to wait until the new exporter was shipped and fully tested
before migrating your work setup?  You'll still have all the
documentation for the older version in the mean time, and once the new
documentation is written, you'll be able to migrate with fewer
problems. 

This is the whole principle that drives Debian, Debian-testing, and
Debian-unstable.

    Dave