From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Org-mode development (was: Vacation, and 5.04) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:57:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <447897b77cbdd4bcfbe3f99b8a027203@science.uva.nl> <20070720152852.GC28297@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILZeS-0000Vv-OA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:20:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILZeR-0000Va-Ik for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:20:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILZeR-0000VX-Ez for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:20:15 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILZeR-0002pc-3P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:20:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070720152852.GC28297@atlantic.linksys.moosehall> 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: Adam Spiers Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jul 20, 2007, at 17:28, Adam Spiers wrote: > This might be a pertinent moment to bring up the topic of revision > control ... or actually it might be a particularly bad moment, > considering that the maintainer is about to vanish for 3 weeks! But I > wanted to propose the idea of adopting a distributed revision control > system. This would allow any individual coder to (amongst other > benefits) easily create short-term feature branches or bugfix branches > off Carsten's releases, share them publically with others for testing, > and enable very low-cost merging back into the mainstream. To use the > current situation as one example, this would mean that Carsten can > relax happily on the beach (or wherever he is ;-) knowing that his > absence is guaranteed *not* to hold any progress back, even if he > decided to stay there for several months ;-) Now we are talking..... :-) > In case anyone's unfamiliar with the benefits of distributed revision > control (vs. centralized, e.g. CVS/svn), enjoy this great talk by > Linus Torvalds at google: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 > > It claims to be about git, but actually it's more about distributed > revision control systems in general - everything he says applies to > similar systems such as mercurial. Thanks for this enjoyable link - lots of fun to watch Linus like this. I'd like to make some comments about the development model or Org-mode and put it up here for discussion. - Org-mode is part of Emacs - this means that I can only accept patches from people who have signed the appropriate papers with the FSF. You might have noticed in the past that I usually don't simply apply a patch. I change it considerably or re-implement the feature, to make sure that we will not run into copyright issues. If you want to contribute to org-mode and make life easy for me, write to assign@gnu.org and ask for the paperwork to become a contributor to org-mode in Emacs, and let me know what you have done so so that I can start to use your patches directly. - The second reason why I often don't apply patches exactly as submitted is because I see my role in filtering and shaping features so that they fit exactly into the feel and look of Org-mode as I see it. I don't want it to loose focus. You might see this as a good thing, but you could also see this as slowing down development. - I have never used git or a similar distributed tool - so I would have to learn how to use them. Thanks for your comments. - Carsten