From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renkert Subject: Re: Not merging org-lparse, org-xhtml & org-odt to the core Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:09:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <81ei0e6vol.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYwU-0005ou-A7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:09:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYwT-0007TT-0N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:09:46 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53430) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYwS-0007TN-Md for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:09:44 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QvYwR-00076z-7m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:09:43 +0200 Received: from mnhm-5f74dea6.pool.mediaWays.net ([95.116.222.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:09:43 +0200 Received: from tunnelblick by mnhm-5f74dea6.pool.mediaWays.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:09:43 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > 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