Hi all, the idea has been surfacing here and there on the list, time to get your feedback on the idea and your help on its technical aspects.
I plan to extract org-contrib.git from org-mode.git. The org-*tar.gz/zip packages would distribute the contrib/ directory as they do now, so there would be no change for users installing from these archives. For users would use Org from git, they would just need to update a git submodule, then all files would be in contrib/ as they are now. So on the overall, this change would only affect developers: those who contribute to Org's core would push commits to org-mode.git and those who contribute to contrib/ would push commits to org-contrib.git. The advantage is (1) to separate Org's core logs (the one that are further merged into Emacs) from the org-contrib.git logs, and (2) to open org-contrib.git more widely, i.e., make it safe for anyone to push commits there with no fear of doing something wrong in Org's main repository. Also, remember that org-contrib.git would be open for contributors without signing FSF papers first. Does anyone think this is a very bad idea? Why? On the technical side: does anyone know what incantations needs to be done for this? I use git filter-branch (and its --tree-filter option) from time to time but I'm definitely not an expert. What we want at the end is: org-mode.git: with no contrib/ directory with no commits affecting the contrib/ directory only. with the maint and master branches org-contrib.git/ with all files from contrib/ with all commits affecting the contrib/ directory. with just a master branch Does anyone feel confident enough about this to provide a recipe? This will be the last "structural" move before releasing 8.0. Thanks in advance for your help! -- Bastien
