Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I played around with the git log data and your claim appears to be
>> incorrect. 
>
> Thanks for providing these numbers, I stand corrected then.

Actually, the number are not as accurate as I thought.
The old manual was in doc/org.texi and had no word "manual" in it.

Grepping the file names yields (different colours represent .texi and .org)

manual-commits-v2.png
Description: PNG image

which is still an improvement because the total number of commits
is just a fraction of the early Org development.

> But I'm not *that* impressed as I still doubt we can infer a causal
> connection between the texi->org switch and the increasing number of
> commits (I've read the detailed logs.)

I am sure that you are a lot more familiar with the historic data.

> If you, Nicolas, Tim and other core contributors say that switching
> back to .texi will definitely slow down your contributions to Org
> (these has to be considered and said in all honesty, which is hard)
> that I would consider a strong argument against the switch back to
> .texi---but that's our collective decision anyway, so I'm fine with
> whatever everyone decides (not now, around Org 10).

Learning .texi will certainly be an extra burden for me. Not impossible,
but feels awkward that I'd need it for Org.

In any case, emacs-devel is not the place to decide this.

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Ihor Radchenko,
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