From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: Co-maintainer, a least for some time? Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:17:41 -0400 Message-ID: <87mxvu61re.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36856 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OF7P9-0005nM-Jn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:13:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Oq-0002Mu-Mp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:11:17 -0400 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:39319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OF7Oq-0002MI-Ip for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 11:11:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Wed, 19 May 2010 10:08:17 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode Mode Hi Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: > I am having a lot of trouble keeping up with everything here in emacs- > orgmode, in combination with the rest of my life. > > Is there anyone who would be willing to step up as a co-maintainer, at > least for some time? > > The tasks would include looking at small patches people submit, making > decision about whether to apply them, checking copyright issues, and > applying the patches. I will be around, so important decisions can be > deferred to me. I'm happy to help out as much as my emacs-lisp and git skills allow. Though others here are far more qualified to serve as an official co-maintainer, I could try to pick up some of the slack by working on any bug fixes, issues, patches, etc. you or the co-maintainer might be willing to delegate. Speaking of which, I've been meaning to sign papers with the FSF. I'll do that ASAP. I, too, vote for some sort of issue tracking system. Perhaps this could be as simple as some of around us here replying to issues on the list with an "I'll take a look at this" or "I'll take responsibility for this." We've all been spoiled by your wonderfully quick and attentive responses to mailing list posts. Perhaps, however, it's time for the community to take more responsibility for claiming issues, bug fixes, etc. within the first 24 to 48 hours of their arrival on the list. If an issue proves too difficult to solve then the responsible party can defer to your or the co-maintainer's expertise. Since this is org-mode, I would prefer to use an org-mode file to track issues. After all, the Wikipedia article on org-mode highlights its suitability for "Distributed issue tracking."[1] The challenge, of course, would be to coordinate this file with the mailing list. Perhaps we could publish a remember template so that contributors, when claiming an issue, can easily create a new todo (with a unique id) in the org-issues file and publish the id in their reply: e.g., "opened and claimed issue [ID number]." Just an idea... Best, Matt Footnotes: [1] Org-mode can be used as a distributed issue tracker, by storing .org files in a distributed revision control system. Developers of the org-babel extension to org-mode use org-mode in this way to track bugs and feature requests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode