Becoming an org contributor liaison (thanks for that opportunity!) has
really motivated me to try to learn enough Elisp so that I can
contribute actual code as well. And I'm really excited about that
notion, but I need to learn more before I can do anything concrete about
it.
But, incidentally, I wrote the following in one of my Org files earlier
today:
* TODO Work towards contributing code
** TODO Make preparations
*** TODO Come up with idea for code change
**** Potential ideas
***** Better display of long appointments in agenda time grid
- Sometimes you have appointments which span several "slots" in
'org-agenda-time-grid', and currently the lines in the grid after the
first one look empty, even though they are "occupied" by an
appointment that's only listed on its first time-matching line on the
grid. For example:
- 08:00...... ----------------
09:00-11:00 Sync meeting
10:00...... ----------------
11:00...... ----------------
12:00...... ----------------
- Even though the meeting is listed as being from 09:00 to 11:00 on
its line, the 10:00 slot still looks empty even though the meeting
is still ongoing then.
- This could be displayed in several better ways:
- Skipping the deceptively empty-looking slot at 10:00:
- 08:00...... ----------------
09:00-11:00 Sync meeting
11:00...... ----------------
12:00...... ----------------
- Displaying the meeting on all relevant lines:
- 08:00...... ----------------
09:00-11:00 Sync meeting
10:00...... | Sync meeting (cont)
11:00...... ----------------
12:00...... ----------------
- Displaying only a pipe on subsequent lines to "occupy" the space:
- 08:00...... ----------------
09:00-11:00 Sync meeting
10:00...... |
11:00...... ----------------
12:00...... ----------------
*** TODO Get approval for the idea
*** TODO Get the org git repo
** TODO Make a code change
*** TODO Implement the idea
**** TODO Figure out which branch to make it on
**** TODO Make sure the repo is up to date
**** TODO Write the code
*** TODO Test it manually
*** TODO Make automated tests for it
**** TODO Learn and document how to make Elisp tests
**** TODO Implement the tests
** TODO Make a patch
*** TODO Learn and document how to make a patch
*** TODO Make sure git repo is updated
*** TODO Re-test after update
**** TODO Manual test
**** TODO Automated test
*** TODO Generate the patch file
** TODO Submit the patch
*** TODO Learn and document how to submit a patch
[[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#first-patch][Submit a patch]]
*** TODO Send the patch to the mailing list
--
Christer Enfors
Org contributor liaison
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