Re: [GSoC] Org-sync v0.2

["Aurélien Aptel" <aurelien.aptel@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Christopher Allan Webber
<cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> This is *very* exciting.  I'm definitely interested in using this for
> MediaGoblin if I can.

Thanks. I've just looked at MediaGoblin but I don't think it fits what
Org-sync was designed for, which is sync with bugtrackers or anything
equivalent i.e. a list of something with an open/closed state with at
least a title and a unique id.

>  - I tend to take notes and local subtasks on bugs.  Is there any way to
>    do that?

No. Org-sync only handles list of 1 level elements right now.

>  - Does org-sync also pull down comments?

No. I guess you could make a backend to sync comments from a single
bug discussion but it's not really helpful.

>  - I'd like to pull down the description and keep the TODO states in
>    sync, but I'm not sure I want editing local descriptions to affect
>    the description remotely.  In fact I'm pretty sure I don't want to do
>    that!  I'd just like the initial state then be able to munge it
>    however.  Is that possible?

That's possible and should be easy to implement, I'll see.

>  - I'd really like to write a trac backend!

There's a guide on the tutorial page [1], and you can look at existing backends.

1: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/student-projects/org-sync/tutorial/#sec-4