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[Orgmode] Org-mode development (was: Vacation, and 5.04)
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Carsten Dominik |
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[Orgmode] Org-mode development (was: Vacation, and 5.04) |
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Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:57:34 +0200 |
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
address@hidden 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
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