On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:41:25PM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to be offline for about 3 weeks. Thanks to > all of you for another year with a lot of fun here on > emacs-orgmode, I certainly get a kick out of this.
I just joined this list a few days ago and was delighted to find such an active community, which I'm sure has had a lot to do with your participation. Hope you enjoy a well-deserved rest! > On my website I have put version 5.04 of org-mode, it contains > the latest bug fixes, but hardly any new features. As an exception > I am *not* uploading this version to CVS Emacs, to avoid the risk > that there will be a deadly bug that I cannot fix for 3 weeks. > > I know that there are a few bug reports and feature requests[1] that > I have not yet adressed. I will try to get to these after the break. > Please continue to report issues and to share your ideas here. > I will try to catch up later - even though, with the current flux > of posts (I love it), this will be daunting task. 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 ;-) 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. > Enjoy the summer (if you are on the northern hemisphere....) I am, but still waiting for it to stop raining :-( Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
