On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 22:24 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: [ . . . ] > Works for me. I'll delay creating a Launchpad project and team, and > establishing a Bazaar branch as the trunk until Andrei gives approval to > the plan ;-)
OK, I created a project on Launchpad. https://launchpad.net/emacs-d-mode. There are currently two Bazaar branches lp:~russel/emacs-d-mode/original and lp:~russel/emacs-d-mode/emacs23 (which is a branch of original with the Emacs23 hack -- which really needs sorting out and turning into a proper fix. I have made the emacs23 branch the trunk so lp:emacs-d-mode is the Emacs 23 branch. As I understand it Bazaar is the official version control system for Emacs. For the moment I am the owner of the project and the branches, so by fiat have elected myself as the maintainer -- I guess I should amend the mode source to reflect this. I have though also created an Emacs D Mode Maintainers team, so if others are interested in helping with this then they can join the team and I can pass ownership of the project and branches to the team. If you are using Emacs and want to use this mode then you branch the branch to somewhere on your filestore and put a link into your Emacs modes directory: cd <some-sane-path-for-Bazaar-branches> ; bzr branch lp:emacs-d-mode Emacs-D-Mode cd ~/.emacs.d ; ln -s <some-sane-path-for-Bazaar-branches>/Emacs-D-Mode/d-mode.el . replacing <some-sane-path-for-Bazaar-branches> with a valid path for your system. The first line works for all operating systems (assuming you have Bazaar installed), the second line works on all the operating systems I use. This means Windows users are on their own! So now the question is how to amend the various web pages: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DMode http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsEditor http://www.wikiservice.at/d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsDMode http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport/EmacsDMode to name but four, to reflect the fact that these Bazaar branches are the master sources of the mode and not the text on the wiki pages? Clearly the mechanism is press the edit button and do the editing, what I mean is what to do about agreeing what to evolve the content to? I note that we need to begin a campaign to get D Mode into the Emacs repository/distribution/etc. I am going to propose that I volunteer myself to do this as I am also involved with the Groovy mode and so I can "kill two birds with one stone" by working to get both these modes in. Given that both modes are based on CC Mode, I propose to approach the CC Mode maintainer and ask his advice. Does this seem reasonable? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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