- So...
I've seen the work you've done for Org-mode till January.
You must be very careful not to make stupid mistakes.
I'll give you a simple example...
When you are merging Org into Emacs...
Er... I don't like to speak about this.
It's difficult, very difficult.
- I will handle it.
- Good luck.
Do you have any idea how you will proceed?
- Yes, one or two.
- Good... it's good.
I simply copied the Org files to Emacs!
It's dirty but it works...
- Yes, yes, I saw it...
- This is not a good method.
I've been looking for a better way to do this but...
But Emacs uses bazaar. This is stupid.
Don't you agree with me?
- Completely...
- It's a complete disaster!
- Yes, indeed...
- If Emacs were using git we could have better collaboration...
- Better collaboration...
[Mhh... Ha... Ha!...]
You know, I was alone when I started org-mode...
I was alone!
- The community was here...
- Maybe I should have let more people collaborate...
Maybe people relied to much on me...
- Don't worry.
We will have more contributors.
I'll make them sign the FSF papers.
It will be tough, but I'll do it. I must do it.
- I must tell you something that you don't want to hear.
Flamewars...
You must prepare for that...
The HTML exporter... I knew it was a mistake...
When I first wrote it, I had this bad feeling and thought: this can end up in spaghettis...
People will borrow this code, this will cause trouble.
Sometimes I wake up at night and think...
I should have done this differently.
Things would be way easier for you.
Org "maintainer"...
"Maintainer"!... it says it all.
- No, you did the right thing.
- And this unicorn... this unicorn! Does it really look queer?
- It's okay.
It's okay...
- Be careful: don't let spaghetti code provoke flamewars... never. Never!
Be very careful.