My thoughtful suggestion has become the brunt of an April Fool's Joke? I have half a mind to report you all to the Productivity Police! Fine! I'm going back to paper and pencil for to-do lists, and mail, too! We'll see how you like that!
:-) On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > the recent discussion about Taskpaper in the thread started > by Clint Laskowski has made me realize how much we have lost > out way with Org-mode. Org-mode was once a compact and > easy tool just like taskpaper. In fact, looking at the > features of taskpaper, one might think that they had an older > version of Org-mode as model and goal of their development. > > But in the meantime, mostly due to a mountain of demands > from this group, it has become so bloated with mostly > useless features, that all but the most geeky users are > totally confused by this. > > Reading this thread has really cost me a lot of sleep, but > I have now come to the conclusion that we need to turn > the tide and downscope Org-mode significantly. Luckily > I have recently put much effort into splitting org.el > into a number of separate files with separate features. > This allows us a very simple and straight-forward path > for this down-scoping effort. I can simply try to remove > one of these separate files after the other and then see > how much complaining I will get for this. In this way, > we can make this process community-based, but I will > need you to frequently update org-mode and to give me > feedback during the process. > > Those of you who actively follow the git repository > might have noticed that this morning I have started > by removing org-table.el, the file containing the > table editor. Unfortunately this also means that the > clocktable support no longer works, but I have always > considered this as a sickening feature anyway, which > tries to streamline our life, but in fact only leads to > more work, and to more time taken away from spending with > partners, kids and friends. > > I hope that you can all agree with my conclusion. If not, > than I am confident that with time you will realize > just how important today's decision was. > > - Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > -- -- Clint Clint Laskowski, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode