Re: Plea for reviews/action on my Patches

[Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>]

Hi Timothy,

Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a very me-centric email

Hehe.

> but I've got a collection patches that
> have received little attention (1 of the past 9 patches I've submitted
> has been reviewed by a core contributor, 6 have zero replies). I care
> about them, and I think it would be good if they were looked at.

As a newly appointed contributor steward, together with Tim and John,
you are of course welcome bumping your own threads ;-}

I suggest you rather bump them individually: sending such a digest
will scatter the discussion in separate places.  (I'm raising some
points below, but please follow-up in the upstream thread.)

> So, I'm going to list those patches here, organised by topic.
>
> * Rendering in/of Org buffers
>
> - [PATCH] Fontification for inline src blocks (Mar 31)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87pmzf4bd0.fsf@gmail.com/
>
> - [PATCH] Add font-lock rule for inline export snippets (Mar 31)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87im57fh8j.fsf@gmail.com/

Let's be extra careful for anything that touches fontification:
did you check the patch was not slowing the display?  How efficient is
it with many inline blocks?  Can we turn this off if we don't use
inline blocks at all?

> - [PATCH] Refresh inline plotted images, org-plot (Apr 24)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87r1j0mg56.fsf@gmail.com/

You're the maintainer, please go ahead.

> * Documentation
>
> - [PATCH] Improve documentation of #+startup keyword (Mar 19)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/874kh72vrl.fsf@gmail.com/

Dismissed.

> * Exporting
>
> - [PATCH] tweaks to ox-html style (Jan 20)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87turbj2nu.fsf@gmail.com/
>   This is commented on a fair bit, but unresolved.
>   If the CTAGS stuff is contentious I'd rather that's
>   just ignored and the rest is merged.

Done.

> - [PATCH] Use <img> tags for SVGs (Apr 7)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87k0pemj6d.fsf@gmail.com/

Done.

> - [PATCH] avoid loading major modes when exporting to file (Mar 31)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87lfa3fips.fsf@gmail.com/

Can you make sure loading major modes while exporting is *never*
needed?  My gut feeling is that it is, sometimes.  Also I suggest 
Nicolas should be the one to validate such a patch.

> - [PATCH] Wrap LaTeX snippets in $$ with markdown export (Apr 1)
>   https://orgmode.org/list/87ft0bff7q.fsf@gmail.com/

I'll let Nicolas decide about this one too.

> I also have some more patches lined up, and I'd rather my number of
> unresolved patches stayed out of the double digits.

Let's focus on all the help requests and issues: the more free time
you liberate from the core maintainers, the more free time they will
have on dealing with new stuff (I'm stating the obvious, sorry.)

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien