Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Po Lu]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> I played around with the git log data and your claim appears to be
> incorrect. The number of commits affecting manual increases
> substantially according to my analysis. And it is not just initial spike
> of fixes after introducing the new format.
>
> See the attached histogram.
>
>
>
>
> Methodology:
>
> The org manual has been introduced around d330eed7c (2017-12)
>
> #+begin_src bash
> git log main --grep manual --format=%ci > manual-commits.dat
> cat manual-commits.dat | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d- -f1,2 > 
> manual-commits-month.dat 
> #+end_src
>
> #+begin_src gnuplot
> set timefmt '%Y-%m'
> set xdata time
> set title "Number of commits according to \"git log --grep manual\"" font 
> ",20"
> set tics out
> set label 1 ".texi → .org" at "2017-12",155 center font ",18" textcolor 
> rgb'red'
> set arrow from "2017-12",0 to "2017-12",150 nohead front lw 10 lc rgb'red'
> set style fill solid 0.5 border
> set yrange [0:160]
> plot 'manual-commits-month.dat' u 1:(1.0) bins=40 w boxes t''
> #+end_src

Maybe that points to Org being more maintainence-heavy than Texinfo?

Anyway, I've made the following offer and will make it again: if anyone
who does not know Texinfo wants to contribute documentation to Emacs, he
can write it in plain text, and I will manually convert it to Texinfo.