Re: Volunteering to maintain ob-asymptote.el within Org

[Jarmo Hurri]

Greetings Bastien!

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

>> I hereby volunteer to maintain ob-asymptote.el. This file has been
>> moved to org-contrib, but I would like it to be brought back into Org
>> itself.
>
> I added Luc (cc'ed) as the maintainer of ob-asymptote.el a while ago:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=27621a5b
>
> Perhaps you can discuss with him to decide whether you both want to
> maintain this file or just one of you?

I do not wish to "steal" ob-asymptote.el from anyone; if Luc is happy
being the maintainer, this is fine by me.

In fact, perhaps it would be best at this point if Luc would maintain
ob-asymptote.el and I would create a good set of examples in Worg:

https://www.orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-asymptote.html

If ob-asymptote.el is moved out of org-contrib, where whould this page
reside?

> As maintainer(s) or ob-asymptote.el, the first step should probably be
> to package it for GNU ELPA: both you and Luc have signed the FSF
> copyright assignment, so there is no blocker for joining GNU ELPA.
> Then we can move it out of org-contrib, which just serves as a
> transitory repository.

This is an excellent idea. I would certainly want ob-asymptote.el out of
org-contrib, since the advertisement for org-contrib almost guarantees
that the files are not maintained. :-)

> For now, I'd rather be conservative with what is added to Org's core:
> GNU ELPA is reachable enough for "niche" features.  If/when Asymptote
> gets more support within Emacs core, we can move ob-asymptote.el in
> Org's core back again.
>
> Would that be okay for you (both)?

This is fine by me. I can start marketing to increase level of interest.

All the best,

Jarmo