Explore the future direction of Org mode in this 40-minute conference talk from EmacsConf 2024. Learn about maintenance priorities, modular development approaches, and upcoming features from Org maintainer Ihor Radchenko. Discover plans for streamlining large libraries, improving parser and babel APIs, and integrating modern Emacs capabilities. Get insights into third-party ecosystem development, including mobile apps and external parsers. Understand ongoing syntax challenges and proposed solutions while learning how to contribute to Org's development through code, ideas, or community participation. The presentation includes a special message from Bastien Guerry and concludes with practical guidance for both programmers and non-programmers interested in supporting Org's evolution. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
The Future of Org Mode - Development Roadmap and Community Contributions
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Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
Message from Bastien Guerry
My step-by-step journey to Org maintenance
Priorities for Org maintenance
Modular Org
Slim down large Org libraries
Upstream generic Org libraries
Use modern Emacs APIs and libraries
Improve Org parser APIs
Improve Org babel APIs
Beyond Org code and Emacs: third-party packages, apps, parsers
org-contrib
Org orphanage
Mobile apps and parsers
Long-standing syntax problems
New syntax features
New features I hope to see in Org
Org community
Org community forums - Org mailing list
Org mailing list - world
Contribute ideas!
How much can a single person do?
Contribute code!
Why contribute?
Benefits for code contributors
Contributing as non-programmer
Got no free time, but still want to help?
Thank you
Taught by
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