From: Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-element.el change in emacs.git
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:31:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgrpf5dq.fsf@alphapapa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874k9ymaia.fsf@gnu.org
Hi Amin,
Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>> By the way, I'm curious, not having always followed the internal details
>> of Org's development over the years: why are changes like that made to
>> emacs.git and merged back into Org, instead of being made in Org and
>> then merged back into Emacs with the next sync? It seems like it could
>> be a burden, requiring someone like you to track them and merge them,
>> but there's probably a good reason for this workflow.
>>
>
> Speaking from personal experience/observations, as far as I know the
> Emacs developers don't have strict rules about having uni-directional
> changes. And this is not unique to Org; I've seen similar changes in
> both directions in other projects developed outside emacs.git that are
> periodically merged into emacs.git. Eliminating the need for keeping
> track of such changes is one potential argument for developing Org --
> and those other similar packages -- inside emacs.git itself. :)
That would be an interesting development, indeed. :) Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-04 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-01 1:31 org-element.el change in emacs.git Adam Porter
2021-10-01 2:31 ` Kyle Meyer
2021-10-01 3:08 ` Adam Porter
2021-10-03 14:46 ` Amin Bandali
2021-10-04 10:31 ` Adam Porter [this message]
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