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Re: [O] [PATCH] Smart inference of task progress when exporting to TJ3


From: Bastien
Subject: Re: [O] [PATCH] Smart inference of task progress when exporting to TJ3
Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 12:08:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi Christian,

Christian Egli <address@hidden> writes:

> The taskjuggler exporter used to be in core before it was moved to
> contrib by Bastien or Nicolas on the bases that there aren't many users
> (and probably because it wasn't maintained very well). This is OK for
> now, but eventually I'd like to move it back to core. So we need
> assignment for this patch.

The rationale for moving some files out of core is not only about the
size of the user-base (which is very difficult to know), but mostly
about whether those contributed packages depend on 3rd-part softwares.

Here is how I stated this in the release notes:

  Since packages in Org's core are meant to be part of GNU Emacs, we
  try to be minimalist when it comes to adding files into core. For
  8.0, we moved some contributions into the contrib/ directory.

  The rationale for deciding that these files should live in contrib/
  is either because they rely on third-part softwares that are not
  included in Emacs, or because they are not targetting a significant
  user-base.

For example, org-mew.el and org-wl.el were moved in contrib/ because
Mew and Wanderlust are not part of Emacs.  Same for org-mac-message.el.
We made one exception for org-w3m.el because emacs-w3m is the most
popular way of browsing the Web within Emacs *and* because there are
ongoing discussions about integrating it in Emacs:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-09/msg00116.html

I hope this clarifies why I made this choice.  Let me know if you
think it is too controversial!

Best,

-- 
 Bastien



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