Re: [PATCH] org-protocol: Fix missing '+' in js snippet

[Maxim Nikulin]

On 30/04/2021 14:21, Bastien wrote:
> Maxim Nikulin writes:
> > On 28/04/2021 12:40, Bastien wrote:
> > > Would you like to volunteer as the maintainer for org-protocol.el?
> > > For now org-protocol.el indicates that Sebastian Rose, the original
> > > author, is the maintainer, but I don't think he would mind handing it
> > > to someone else.

Let me rise an issue related to org protocol that I consider important 
enough. Test are not executed by default, so there is a chance that 
breaking changes will be committed untested. There are two options:

1. Add org-protocol to the list of loaded packaged. The drawback is that 
test run will not detect unintentional dependency of org core on 
org-protocol.
2. Add a separate command to Makefile that tests exclusively 
org-protocol and update testing/README with reminder concerning 
org-protocol.

I believe that variant 2 is better, but opinion of core maintainers and 
their workflow is certainly more important.

> ...
> > Example of my ignorance: I suspect, I did not recognize that
> > apostrophe needs special escaping in doc strings
> > https://orgmode.org/list/s4hsag$ogg$1@ciao.gmane.io/

By the way, the patch (I have updated it in meanwhile) is not tracked on 
https://updates.orgmode.org/. I could not figure out what was the 
difference from e.g. 
https://orgmode.org/list/s6c1cm$174s$1@ciao.gmane.io/ Should I file an 
issue at github?

> > Actually, I do not think, org-protocol requires a dedicated
> > maintainer. There are a few things that may be improved, but they
> > should be discussed at first. It seems, all current user already
> > managed to configure their handlers and prefer to not experiment any
> > more. So there is a little interest in this area.
>
> I don't use org-protocol.el myself and I'd rather have someone using
> it being able to reproduce bugs and help maintainers fix problems.

It is funny, but I am not an active org-protocol user as well. I tried 
it, then I decided to create a browser extension that extracts some 
metadata in addition to page title. Since I am not satisfied with 
capture quality yet, I have to inspect page structure often enough. That 
is why there is no point to minimize interaction (primary goal of 
org-protocol) and I usually copy result and call org-paste-subtree. 
Though I test from time to time that org-protocol is not broken in my 
extension. The goal of my patches to org-protocol is to avoid some 
surprises I have faced.

Since I use linux, I can not reproduce windows or mac problems. 
Extrapolation of linux issues is not always applicable.

There were ~10 threads related to org protocol issues over 1.5 years I 
have in local cache, so it is not a hot topic that deserves a 
maintainer. Do not worry.