Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2021-01-02 Thread TRS-80
On 2020-12-18 16:49, Asa Zeren wrote: Have people looked at sourcehut (https://sourcehut.org)? While it's still in alpha, and so has a number of rough edges, it seems pretty promising. Sourcehut is trying to build a platform with accessible web uis that is backed by mailing lists. Just annother

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-29 Thread Gustav Wikström
Subject: Re: Release Org 9.4.2 Gustav Wikström writes: > It is my believe that Org would benefit from a counter that would "tic > up" even if no one collects the money. Like it or not, money has an > effect. Better to allocate it to open source work than anything else! O

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-29 Thread TEC
Gustav Wikström writes: > It is my believe that Org would benefit from a counter that would "tic > up" even if no one collects the money. Like it or not, money has an > effect. Better to allocate it to open source work than anything else! Or? I've never used it, but could something like

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-22 Thread Jean Louis
* Bastien [2020-12-22 19:20]: > TEC writes: > > > I think this conversation deserves it's own thread, perhaps something > > like "Org's development forge". > > Please don't open this topic, as there is no plan here. There need not be any official plan. But why not. Org mode is all about

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-22 Thread Bastien
TEC writes: > I think this conversation deserves it's own thread, perhaps something > like "Org's development forge". Please don't open this topic, as there is no plan here. -- Bastien

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-22 Thread TEC
I've been following this conversation, and I'm glad to see it happening. However, we've really stayed quite far from the subject of our emails :P I think this conversation deserves it's own thread, perhaps something like "Org's development forge". -- Timothy Lennart C. Karssen writes: >

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-22 Thread Lennart C. Karssen
On 16-12-2020 19:41, Tim Cross wrote: > > > Github is not an option here. The problem is, github encourages the use > of proprietary, non-free software, which conflicts with the GNU's > primary goal of software freedom. As Org mode is a GNU project, it > cannot use Github in any fashion which

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 18 Dec 2020 at 16:49, Asa Zeren wrote: > Have people looked at sourcehut Looks interesting and seems to work fine with eww (but haven't stressed test this) which is a bonus. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.3-150-g6b83c6

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-18 Thread Asa Zeren
Have people looked at sourcehut (https://sourcehut.org)? While it's still in alpha, and so has a number of rough edges, it seems pretty promising. Sourcehut is trying to build a platform with accessible web uis that is backed by mailing lists. Just annother option to consider, though there is no

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-17 Thread Samuel Wales
i just wanted to say thanks to everybody who maintains org. somebody said a counter for donations might be useful even if nobody collects it. i am not able to follow this discussion closely for health reasons, but one possibility, which you can reject if you like, but which i mention because

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-17 Thread Greg Minshall
Eric, > Sure, and I do use it this way, but I had the impression that it was the > non-git aspects that were being put forward as being somehow helpful. I > could be wrong. i'm not a git-spert. but, the "pull requests" mechanism and "issues" (but reports), are maybe bits of git*.com that

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-17 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 16:13, Loris Bennett wrote: > But even if a project is hosted on GitHub, you can still interact with > it just via Emacs, it is still Git after all. Sure, and I do use it this way, but I had the impression that it was the non-git aspects that were being put forward as

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Cross
Loris Bennett writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:04, Gustav Wikström wrote: >>> But to be fair, the collaboration features of GitHub surely would be a >>> BIG net positive if the goal is to attract contributions and gain a >>> bigger mindshare. >> >> Not

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Tim Cross
Gustav Wikström writes: >> From: Emacs-orgmode on behalf >> of TEC >> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 08:14 >> To: Bastien >> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Pankaj Jangid >> Subject: Re: Release Org 9.4.2 >> >> ... >> >> I actually

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Gustav Wikström
> From: Eric S Fraga > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 15:50 > To: Gustav Wikström > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Release Org 9.4.2 > > On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 14:11, Gustav Wikström wrote: > > I for on

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Loris Bennett
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:04, Gustav Wikström wrote: >> But to be fair, the collaboration features of GitHub surely would be a >> BIG net positive if the goal is to attract contributions and gain a >> bigger mindshare. > > Not necessarily. Some of us dislike web

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Gustav Wikström writes: > But to be fair, the collaboration features of GitHub surely would be a > BIG net positive if the goal is to attract contributions and gain a > bigger mindshare. That together with an open collective funding model > of some sort. Because let's be fair. This is a hobby

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 14:11, Gustav Wikström wrote: > I for one wouldn't feel sorry if we (the world) could collect > resources to make working with Org mode a financially viable way of > life for someone. I think that's already possible, or least it was with the old web site: there

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Gustav Wikström
> From: Eric S Fraga > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 14:49 > To: Gustav Wikström > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Release Org 9.4.2 > > ... > > Why cool? What's cool is that so many contribute, in a wide range of > ways, without some financial re

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:04, Gustav Wikström wrote: > But to be fair, the collaboration features of GitHub surely would be a > BIG net positive if the goal is to attract contributions and gain a > bigger mindshare. Not necessarily. Some of us dislike web based tools intensely, in fact

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-16 Thread Gustav Wikström
> From: Emacs-orgmode on behalf > of TEC > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 08:14 > To: Bastien > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Pankaj Jangid > Subject: Re: Release Org 9.4.2 > > ... > > I actually have a few thoughts on this. I'm afraid that I don't think &g

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread TEC
Hello. I just have a few cents I'd like to add. Bastien writes: > Thanks a lot for the kind words, appreciated. You deserve them! :) > ... but I'm very receptive to the real questions: how can we expose > the latest Org to more testers? how can we recruit more contributors? I actually have

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Bastien writes: > Be reassured, the fact that I shall soon step down has nothing to do > with the community: in fact, the community is what kept me motivated > for nearly ten years now! > > This decision is a simple combination of me not having enough time > (which can lead to frustrating

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Bastien
Pankaj Jangid writes: >> But (1) it is not only *our* decision, it's also in the hands of the >> Emacs maintainers, which may think otherwise; (2) all the consequences >> need to be considered, as it is a sensible move; (3) I am on the verge >> of stepping down as a maintainer, so it is not a

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Daniele Nicolodi writes: >> My question is/are: (1) Why Org is developed outside Emacs, given that >> it is a core/built-in package. (2) Are there other packages that follow >> the same process? > > AFAIK also cc-mode is developed in a dedicate repository. > > From an Emacs development point of

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Bastien writes: >> My question is/are: (1) Why Org is developed outside Emacs, given that >> it is a core/built-in package. > > When Org's development switched to Git (13 years ago, from memory), > the release cycle was very short. Way shorter than the release cycle > of Emacs. Also, the

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 15/12/2020 14:58, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> On Monday, 14 Dec 2020 at 20:49, Pankaj Jangid wrote: >>> I like testing Emacs on the trunk and I ‘git pull’ and ‘make bootstrap’ >>> daily and use it without any external packages. This is just to make >>> sure that any

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Bastien
Hi Pankaj, Pankaj Jangid writes: > My question is/are: (1) Why Org is developed outside Emacs, given that > it is a core/built-in package. When Org's development switched to Git (13 years ago, from memory), the release cycle was very short. Way shorter than the release cycle of Emacs. Also,

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Monday, 14 Dec 2020 at 20:49, Pankaj Jangid wrote: >> I like testing Emacs on the trunk and I ‘git pull’ and ‘make bootstrap’ >> daily and use it without any external packages. This is just to make >> sure that any external package is not the cause for what appears to

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-15 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 14 Dec 2020 at 20:49, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I like testing Emacs on the trunk and I ‘git pull’ and ‘make bootstrap’ > daily and use it without any external packages. This is just to make > sure that any external package is not the cause for what appears to be > an Emacs bug. > > I can

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-14 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Bastien writes: > I've released Org 9.4.2, a bugfix release. > > This version was merged with the emacs-27 branch: This is the only code that goes into stable branch first and then into ‘master’. Probably we need tweak the process a bit.

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-14 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Bastien writes: >>> I've released Org 9.4.2, a bugfix release. >>> >>> This version was merged with the emacs-27 branch: >> >> This is the only code that goes into stable branch first and then into >> ‘master’. Probably we need tweak the process a bit. > > Sorry, I don't understand your concern

Re: Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-14 Thread Bastien
Hi Pankaj, Pankaj Jangid writes: > Bastien writes: > >> I've released Org 9.4.2, a bugfix release. >> >> This version was merged with the emacs-27 branch: > > This is the only code that goes into stable branch first and then into > ‘master’. Probably we need tweak the process a bit. Sorry, I

Release Org 9.4.2

2020-12-13 Thread Bastien
Hi all, I've released Org 9.4.2, a bugfix release. This version was merged with the emacs-27 branch: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-27 Enjoy! -- Bastien