bzg's comments

I confirm it still makes sense.

I just want to make things easier for the futur Org maintainer by spending the next few months recruiting more contributors.

I did not know for the "BZ" expression! I like it.

Glad to find long-time power users here btw :)

Can you elaborate a bit more on how this would simplif the contribution process?

Perhaps it would make it more familiar, but I don't think it would really simplify it.

First because I think issue handling on GitLab/GitHub kinda worsen the problem of the lack of maintainance resources, instead of fixing it

Second because we are quite strict on how to format changelog entries, and I believe email interactions help educating contributors in a nice way, while MR/PR interactions might generate more fatigue -- not so sure about this one, though.

Well, of course you can revert a commit from org-mode.

Simply create a bash source code block that goes in the right directory and does the git revert. \o/

Did you try to see what made the table unusable? If you feel want, you can report this to [email protected] and maybe we can do something about it. Thanks!

I have been a free maintainer for the last 10 years and I find this topic quite fascinating.

I have gathered links about it here: https://bzg.github.io/opensource-challenges

Oh, and you can support my FLOSS contributions through Github: https://github.com/sponsors/bzg

What did you lose exactly?

How can we feel in love again with Org?

Please report bugs or badly implemented features to the Org-mode mailing list at [email protected] - thanks!

GNU Emacs + Gnus, using http://gwene.org to convert RSS feeds into newsgroups.

Oh nice! What kind of academic research?

\o/ Can I squeeze a last minute request? Allow to login to http://demo.hyperfiddle.net for users who don't have a Google account.

In any case, I love the idea. Looking forward!

OLPC is certainly history now and Sugar Labs, while still active, is struggling to keep Sugar relevant.

We at OLPC France started https://sugarizer.org : a HTML/JS rewrite of Sugar. Real-time collaboration on pedagogical activities, the journal to browse past activities, all this in plain HTML/JS.

Contributions are welcome!

Very nice! Congrats for this.

In GNU Emacs, Org is both a plain text format and a set of tools to edit .org files: it's nice to see both implemented outside Emacs!

There was https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer/ but it's inactive since 2014. Maybe there is a more recent one that I'm not aware of.

I do read this thread, and I'm very receptive to the "oh-no-please-dont-break-backward-compatibility-again" complaints.

The best course of action is (1) to try to find help on the mailing list for new functions to ease the migration to the new syntactic rules (there is one already in the release notes) and (2) to raise your voice on the mailing list and support those who share the same view.

I've been a release manager for 9.0, not the real maintainer, so things may have slipped in directions I didn't have time to carefully review. If I manage to get involved again as a real maintainer, I will enforce syntactic stability and backward compatibility as much as possible.

Funny, I stumble upon this documentary while I'm reading http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... - which I highly recommend.

"I think we have an opportunity to come up with better models for creative people than exploitative contracts with publishers."

Agreed. Maybe I'm extrapolating, but I think there is the same need for creative people who build free softwares today.

Emacs loves diversity. As a dinner.

This is it, thanks. Beautiful, but too bad there is no easy way to deactivate it.

Actually, I'm also on the "less configuration, less trouble" side. That's why I like some minor mode to let me get rid of what I don't want to see, sometimes.