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This is the GIT repository for the development of Org mode, an Emacs mode for organizing your life.
The text below explains the rules for participating in Org mode development.
- The master git repository is hosted publicly at orgmode.org.
Anyone can get a clone of the current repository state using
the command
git clone https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git
Having a clone is sufficient to start hacking and to produce patches that can easily and consistently be applied to the main repository.
- People who are interested in participating to the Org mode development can do so by sending patches to this address:
- An interested developer can also request push access to the
central repository by creating an account on code.orgmode.org
and by sending her/his user info to the maintainer.
After you have been added as a user with push privileges, clone the repository through ssh using
git clone [email protected]:bzg/org-mode.git
By requesting push access, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed with the following rules:
- Org mode is part of GNU Emacs. Therefore, we need to be
very conscious about changes moving into the Org mode core.
These can originate only from people who have signed the
appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The
files to which this applies are:
- all *.el files in the lisp directory of the repository
- org.texi, orgcard.tex in the doc directory
- the corresponding ChangeLog files
- Before making any significant changes, please explain and
discuss them on the mailing list [email protected].
This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining their own contributions to Org mode. Please, just use the new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right place.
- Org mode no longer uses ChangeLog entries to document changes. Instead, special commit messages are used, as described in the `CONTRIBUTE’ file in the main Emacs repository.
- Among other things, Org mode is widely appreciated because of its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try hard to preserve this and ask everyone to keep this in mind when developing changes.
- Org mode is part of GNU Emacs. Therefore, we need to be
very conscious about changes moving into the Org mode core.
These can originate only from people who have signed the
appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The
files to which this applies are:
The git repository contains a contrib/
directory. This directory
is the playing field for any developer, also people who have not
(yet) signed the papers with the FSF. You are free to add files
to this directory, implementing extensions, new link types etc.
Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org files in different ways are welcome in this directory. You should provide documentation with your extensions, at least in the form of commentary in the file, better on worg. Please discuss your extensions on [email protected].
After files have been tested in contrib/
and found to be
generally useful, we may decide to clarify copyright questions
and then move the file into the Org mode core. This means they
will be moved up to the root directory and will also eventually
be added to GNU Emacs git repository. The final decision about
this rests with the maintainer.