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The Orgfather

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

Since January 2001, Emacs org-mode has a new maintainer. The emacsleaks team stumbled upon this secret interview between Org's author and this maintainer.

Since it contains sensible information possibly useful for any Emacs citizen, we decided to release it to the world.
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Video Language:
Hungarian
Duration:
04:24

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