From eae7ccd5b0e16014bd77e7d042fc28efb5c2f5c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carsten Dominik Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:51:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Augment the acknowledgements to reflect the addition of Org Babel --- doc/org.texi | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi index 775648060..f8270fc0f 100644 --- a/doc/org.texi +++ b/doc/org.texi @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. @subtitle Release @value{VERSION} @author by Carsten Dominik +with contributions by David O'Toole, Dan Davison, Eric Schulte and Thomas Dye @c The following two commands start the copyright page. @page @@ -13992,27 +13993,21 @@ the view, only the current agenda files will be searched. @cindex history @cindex thanks -Org was born in 2003, out of frustration over the user interface -of the Emacs Outline mode. I was trying to organize my notes and -projects, and using Emacs seemed to be the natural way to go. However, -having to remember eleven different commands with two or three keys per -command, only to hide and show parts of the outline tree, that seemed -entirely unacceptable to me. Also, when using outlines to take notes, I -constantly wanted to restructure the tree, organizing it parallel to my -thoughts and plans. @emph{Visibility cycling} and @emph{structure -editing} were originally implemented in the package -@file{outline-magic.el}, but quickly moved to the more general -@file{org.el}. As this environment became comfortable for project -planning, the next step was adding @emph{TODO entries}, basic -@emph{timestamps}, and @emph{table support}. These areas highlighted the two main -goals that Org still has today: to be a new, outline-based, -plain text mode with innovative and intuitive editing features, and to -incorporate project planning functionality directly into a notes file. - -A special thanks goes to @i{Bastien Guerry} who has not only written a large -number of extensions to Org (most of them integrated into the core by now), -but who has also helped in the development and maintenance of Org so much that he -should be considered the main co-contributor to this package. +Org was born in 2003, out of frustration over the user interface of the Emacs +Outline mode. I was trying to organize my notes and projects, and using +Emacs seemed to be the natural way to go. However, having to remember eleven +different commands with two or three keys per command, only to hide and show +parts of the outline tree, that seemed entirely unacceptable to me. Also, +when using outlines to take notes, I constantly wanted to restructure the +tree, organizing it parallel to my thoughts and plans. @emph{Visibility +cycling} and @emph{structure editing} were originally implemented in the +package @file{outline-magic.el}, but quickly moved to the more general +@file{org.el}. As this environment became comfortable for project planning, +the next step was adding @emph{TODO entries}, basic @emph{timestamps}, and +@emph{table support}. These areas highlighted the two main goals that Org +still has today: to be a new, outline-based, plain text mode with innovative +and intuitive editing features, and to incorporate project planning +functionality directly into a notes file. Since the first release, literally thousands of emails to me or to @email{emacs-orgmode@@gnu.org} have provided a constant stream of bug @@ -14023,6 +14018,38 @@ in shaping one or more aspects of Org. The list may not be complete, if I have forgotten someone, please accept my apologies and let me know. +Before I get to this list, a few special mentions are in order: + +@table @i +@item Bastien Guerry +Bastien has written a large number of extensions to Org (most of them +integrated into the core by now), including the LaTeX exporter and the plain +list parser. More importantly, maybe, was his help and support when Org got +first started, he was very important during this phase. Also, he invented +Worg, helped establishing the Web presence of Org, and sponsors hosting costs +for the orgmode.org website. +@item Eric Schulte and Dan Davison +Eric and Dan are jointly responsible for the Org-babel system, which turns +Org into a multi-language environment for evaluating code and doing literate +programming and reproducible research. +@item John Wiegley +John has also contributed a number of great ideas and patches +directly to Org, including the attachment system (@file{org-attach.el}), +integration with Apple Mail (@file{org-mac-message.el}), hierarchical +dependencies of TODO items, habit tracking (@file{org-habits.el}), and +encryption (@file{org-crypt.el}). Also, the capture system is really an +extended copy of his great @file{remember.el}. +@item Sebastian Rose +Without Sebastian, the HTML/XHTML publishing of Org would be the pitiful work +of an ignorant amateur. Sebastian has pushed this part of Org onto a much +higher level. He also wrote @file{org-info.js}, a Java script for displaying +webpages derived from Org using an Info-like or a folding interface with +single-key navigation. +@end table + +@noindent OK, now to the full list of contributions! Again, please let me +know what I am missing here! + @itemize @bullet @item @@ -14055,8 +14082,6 @@ calculations and improved XEmacs compatibility, in particular by porting @item @i{Baoqiu Cui} contributed the DocBook exporter. @item -@i{Dan Davison} wrote (together with @i{Eric Schulte}) Org Babel. -@item @i{Eddward DeVilla} proposed and tested checkbox statistics. He also came up with the idea of properties, and that there should be an API for them. @@ -14066,6 +14091,8 @@ them. @i{Kees Dullemond} used to edit projects lists directly in HTML and so inspired some of the early development, including HTML export. He also asked for a way to narrow wide table columns. +@i{Thomas S. Dye} contributed documentation on Worg and helped integrating +the Org-Babel documentation into the manual. @item @i{Christian Egli} converted the documentation into Texinfo format, patched CSS formatting into the HTML exporter, and inspired the agenda. @@ -14088,9 +14115,6 @@ around a match in a hidden outline tree. @item @i{Niels Giesen} had the idea to automatically archive DONE trees. @item -@i{Bastien Guerry} wrote the La@TeX{} exporter and @file{org-bibtex.el}, and -has been prolific with patches, ideas, and bug reports. -@item @i{Kai Grossjohann} pointed out key-binding conflicts with other packages. @item @i{Bernt Hansen} has driven much of the support for auto-repeating tasks, @@ -14164,10 +14188,6 @@ also acted as mailing list moderator for some time. @item @i{Kevin Rogers} contributed code to access VM files on remote hosts. @item -@i{Sebastian Rose} wrote @file{org-info.js}, a Java script for displaying -webpages derived from Org using an Info-like or a folding interface with -single-key navigation, and make lots of improvements to the HTML exporter. -@item @i{Frank Ruell} solved the mystery of the @code{keymapp nil} bug, a conflict with @file{allout.el}. @item @@ -14180,9 +14200,6 @@ of feedback, developed and applied standards to the Org documentation. @i{Christian Schlauer} proposed angular brackets around links, among other things. @item -@i{Eric Schulte} wrote @file{org-plot.el} and (together with @i{Dan Davison}) -Org Babel, and contributed various patches, small features and modules. -@item @i{Paul Sexton} wrote @file{org-ctags.el}. @item Linking to VM/BBDB/Gnus was first inspired by @i{Tom Shannon}'s @@ -14229,16 +14246,6 @@ keyword. @i{David Wainberg} suggested archiving, and improvements to the linking system. @item -@i{John Wiegley} wrote @file{emacs-wiki.el}, @file{planner.el}, and -@file{muse.el}, which have some overlap with Org. Initially the development -of Org was fully independent because I was not aware of the existence of -these packages. But with time I have occasionally looked at John's code and -learned a lot from it. John has also contributed a number of great ideas and -patches directly to Org, including the attachment system -(@file{org-attach.el}), integration with Apple Mail -(@file{org-mac-message.el}), hierarchical dependencies of TODO items, habit -tracking (@file{org-habits.el}). -@item @i{Carsten Wimmer} suggested some changes and helped fix a bug in linking to Gnus. @item -- 2.11.4.GIT