From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: RFC: Creating a new org-contrib.git repository
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:02:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ngmgqfg.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
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
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2013-03-08 10:02 Bastien [this message]
2013-03-11 21:56 ` RFC: Creating a new org-contrib.git repository Achim Gratz
2013-03-11 22:18 ` Bastien
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