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Re: [MAINTENANCE] Org orphanage?


From: Bastien
Subject: Re: [MAINTENANCE] Org orphanage?
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:13:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think it is a very good idea and a natural evolution of org-contrib,
>> thanks for suggesting this.
>> ...
>> We can announce this along with the Org 9.6 release.
>
> So, we now have https://orgmode.org/worg/org-orphanage.html
>
> It is very bare bones.

:)

> We can add the following:
>
> 1. Mention orphanage at https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html
>    Probably, in a visible way, as a div box.

I added a mention early on in the page, but perhaps this can be made
more prominent.

> 2. Add org-contrib

Done.

> 3. Link to orphanage from https://sr.ht/~bzg/org/

Done.

> 4. Maybe add a separate section to updates.orgmode.org

Not done, as updates.orgmode.org will be deprecated soon.

> 5. We can offer to move orphaned repositories to sr.ht under our control
>    and mention that we can do minimal maintenance then.

I'm not sure about this.

Another idea is to rename org-contrib to org-orphanage and to offer to
add *.el files there?  This way we make it very obvious that these files
receive minimal maintenance while allowing users to install them through
GNU ELPA.

WDYT?

-- 
 Bastien



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