Re: Not merging org-lparse, org-xhtml & org-odt to the core

[Thomas Renkert <tunnelblick@quantentunnel.de>]

> I have made a decision not to merge org-lparse, org-xhtml & org-odt in
> to Orgmode core. It is a very difficult decision for me to take
> considering that I had put all my heart in to it. (Btw, this decision
> has nothing to with me not having enough time at hand.)
> 
> I leave it up to the community on what would be the best place to "host"
> this software. I am a signed contributor and all the above files have
> their copyright assigned to FSF and the files are distributed under the
> same license as Emacs itself. I would like to emphasize that I am the
> SOLE AUTHOR of the above files. (More specifically, there is literally
> none of the changes made by Lennart Borgman had made it's way in to the
> final product. Though it retains some of the "influence" of his
> involvement.)
> 
> I will not be making anymore commits to the Orgmode repo and I am
> switching my development to a private branch.
> 
> Jambunathan K.


Hi Jambunathan,

this is very bad news - I was just starting to use your org-odt-module 
and I must say that I already depend on it. It is a fine piece of work!

So, like everbody else, I wonder what went wrong? Has it to do with 
the way the core development of orgmode is handled? Is there 
something that could be improved?

I personally would really like to see important contribution such 
as yours become more and more integrated into the 'standard' 
Org ditribution - and not pushed further away. 

I guess it is also natural for a project like org-mode to face
 different development-related problems as it becomes bigger 
and more people are involved. However, I am confident that there
 is a solution somewhere (maybe we can learn something from 
other larger OSS projects?). 

Could you give us some feedback from your perspective? 
What are the reasons for your decision?

Regards,
Thomas