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Re: org-element.el change in emacs.git


From: Adam Porter
Subject: Re: org-element.el change in emacs.git
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:31:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi Amin,

Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:

>> By the way, I'm curious, not having always followed the internal details
>> of Org's development over the years: why are changes like that made to
>> emacs.git and merged back into Org, instead of being made in Org and
>> then merged back into Emacs with the next sync?  It seems like it could
>> be a burden, requiring someone like you to track them and merge them,
>> but there's probably a good reason for this workflow.
>>
>
> Speaking from personal experience/observations, as far as I know the
> Emacs developers don't have strict rules about having uni-directional
> changes.  And this is not unique to Org; I've seen similar changes in
> both directions in other projects developed outside emacs.git that are
> periodically merged into emacs.git.  Eliminating the need for keeping
> track of such changes is one potential argument for developing Org --
> and those other similar packages -- inside emacs.git itself. :)

That would be an interesting development, indeed.  :)  Thanks.




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