[Orgmode] Re: Org-mode collaborative (multiple users working on the same set of files)

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi all,

> Regarding the clocked times:
>
>>> I just read this and before nobody answers, I'll give you a small POC that
>>> should work for you. As far as I can tell it doesn't break anything.
>>>
>>> (defun org-clock-out-mark-clock ()
>>>   (unless remove (insert (format " (%s)" user-full-name))))
>>>
>>> (add-hook 'org-clock-out-hook 'org-clock-out-mark-clock)
>
> Yep, this seems to work perfectly -- did not catch any conflict yet, but
> usage time still low.
>
> Example results:
>
> * My sub-project
>   :LOGBOOK:
>   CLOCK: [2010-06-14 Mon 09:15]--[2010-06-14 Mon 10:11] =>  0:56 (Sebastien 
> Vauban)
>   - Test.
>   :END:
>
> Your proposed format seems nice to me.

Thinking a bit more about this, I would imagine a "tag"-like format would even
be more aligned with the rest, moreover if we could get a filtering function
(thus, based on tags):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* My sub-project
  :LOGBOOK:
  CLOCK: [2010-06-14 Mon 09:15]--[2010-06-14 Mon 10:10] =>  0:55  :svauban:
  - Introduction.
  CLOCK: [2010-06-17 Thu 11:55]--[2010-06-17 Thu 14:40] =>  2:45  :eschulte:
  - First essay.
  CLOCK: [2010-06-18 Fri 12:10]--[2010-06-18 Fri 13:20] =>  1:10  :svauban:
  - Brainstorming.
  :END:
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Of course, when using tags, that would imply that identifiers don't contain
spaces, if I'm not misspeaking.


>> [...] I have been using org-mode files as a point of collaboration on a
>> couple of projects (including org-babel [1]) and I think a generalization
>> of something like your proposed `org-user-identifier' variable could be
>> very useful for many of the org meta-data items associated with headlines.
>>
>> For example, it would be great to record the user responsible for every
>> TODO state change, so that something like
>>
>>   ** DONE Org-babel should work well when indented
>>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2010-06-10 Thu 15:48]
>>
>> would instead be
>>
>>   ** DONE Org-babel should work well when indented
>>      - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       by eschulte       [2010-06-10 
>> Thu 15:48]
>
> That'd be great. I now dream of the ability to get a "revision history" to
> be easily inserted at the begin of a document, like all pros do.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban