Re: [ELPA] New package: jami-bot and org-jami-bot

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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When I lookd at the code for org-jami-bot, I saw that it consisted of
various jami-bot operations together with calls to org-capture.  It is
not very complex.  If I understood the calling conventions for
jami-bot and the calling conventions for org-capture, rather than
guessing them, I might be able to quickly develop something comparable
to org-jami-bot which does not depend on Org.

But I don't know them, and practically speaking I would need to study
a lot of code before I could possibly writ such a thing.
Someone who doesn't want to adopt Org and simply wants a way to set
up responses to Jami messages would have to give up.

The code of org-jami-bot is very clean, and I presume jami-bot is too.
But they do have a problem of a different kind: a gap.  Using Org for
this feature should be optional, not practically required.

I observed another gap: org-jami-bot does not contain documentation
that answers the basic questions, "What does this do, and how do you use it?"
Its user options and function arguments were carefully documented in detail;
what was missing was the overall framework to understand it all.

Would people please fill these gaps before instelling the code in GNU
ELPA?

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