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Org maintainer tasks

This document describes the tasks the Org-mode maintainer has to do and how they are performed.

Git workflow

The git repository has two branches:

master
for current development.
maint
for bug fixes against latest major or minor release.

Bug fixes always go on maint then are merged on master.

New features always go on master.

Releasing

Major release

The release number for main releases look like this: 9.1

Main releases are made whenever Org is in a state where the feature set is consistent and we feel that the features that are implemented is something we want to support in the future.

A major release turns the current state of the master branch into a release.

When doing a major release, make sure all changes from the maint branch are merged into the the master branch, then merge the master branch back into maint to synchronize the two.

Minor release

The release number for minor releases look like this: 9.1.7

Minor releases are small amends to main releases. Usually they fix critical bugs discovered in a main release. Minor bugs are usually not fixed – they will be adressed in the next main release.

Only the fix to the bug is bundled into a release, without the main development work going on in the master branch. Since the bug fix will also be needed in the master branch, usually the fix is made in maint then merged in master.

Tagging the release

When doing a major and a minor release, after all necessary merging is done, tag the maint branch for the release with:

git tag -a release_9.1.7 -m “Adding release tag”

and push tags with

git push –tags

We also encourage you to sign release tags like this:

git tag -s release_9.1.7 -m “Adding release tag”

Uploading the release files from the orgmode.org server

Log on the orgmode.org server as the emacs user and cd to ~/git/org-mode

From there do

make release make upload

to create the .tar.gz and .zip files, the documentation, and to upload everything at the right place.

Available Org’s builds on the server

There are two cron tasks on the server: one that builds the ELPA packages and one that builds org-latest.tar.gz and org-latest.zip.

ELPA packages are built from the maint branch. One ELPA package contains Org’s core, another one called “org-plus-contrib” contains Org and contributed libraries.

org-latest* snapshots are built from the master branch.

Synchronization Org and upstream Emacs

Below it is described how Org is kept in sync with the upstream Emacs.

Backporting changes from upstream Emacs

Sometimes Emacs maintainers make changes to Org files. The process of propagating the changes back to the Org repository is called backporting for historical reasons.

To find changes that need to be backported from the Emacs repository, the following git command, courtesy of Kyle Meyer, can be used:

git log $rev..origin/emacs-25 -- lisp/org doc/misc/org.texi \
  etc/refcards/orgcard.tex etc/ORG-NEWS etc/org \
  etc/schema/od-manifest-schema-v1.2-os.rnc \
  etc/schema/od-schema-v1.2-os.rnc

here, $rev is the last commit from the emacs-25 branch that was backported. The should also be done for the master branch.

There is also a feed to keep track of new changes in the lisp/org folder in the Emacs repository.

Updating the Org version in upstream Emacs

New releases of Org should be added to the Emacs repository.

Typically, Org can be synchronized by copying over files from the emacs-sync branch of the Org repository to the master branch of Emacs repository. The emacs-sync branch has a few extra changes compared with the maint branch. If the Emacs maintainers are planning a new release of Emacs soon, it is possible that another branch should be used.

If the new release of Org contains many changes, it may be useful to use a separate branch before merging, e.g. scratch/org-mode-merge. This branch can then be merged with the master branch, when everything has been tested.

Please see CONTRIBUTE in the Emacs repository for guidelines on contributing to the Emacs repository.

Where to files go

The following list shows where files in Org repository are copied to in the Emacs repository, folder by folder.

org-mode/doc

org.texi
Copy to emacs/doc/misc. It may be necessary to replace, @include org-version.inc with @set VERSION 9.0.9 or similar.
orgcard.tex
Copy to emacs/etc/refcards. Make sure that \def\orgversionnumber and \def\versionyear are up to date.

org-mode/etc

styles/*
Copy to emacs/etc/org.
schema/*.rnc
Copy to emacs/etc/schema.
schema/schemas.xml
Any new entries in this file should be added to emacs/etc/schema/schemas.xml.
ORG-NEWS
Copy to emacs/etc

org-mode/lisp

  • Copy *.el files to emacs/lisp/org, except org-loaddefs.el!
  • You should create org-version.el in emacs/lisp/org. The file is created when you make Org.

org-mode/testing

Update emacs/etc/NEWS

Whenever a new (major) version of Org is synchronized to the Emacs repository, it should be mentioned in the NEWS file.

Updating the list of hooks/commands/options on Worg

Load the mk/eldo.el file then M-x eldo-make-doc RET.

This will produce an org file with the documentation.

Import this file into worg/doc.org, leaving the header untouched (except for the release number).

Then commit and push the change on the worg.git repository.

Copyright assignments

The maintainer needs to keep track of copyright assignments. Even better, find a volunteer to do this.

The assignment form is included in the repository as a file that you can send to contributors: request-assign-future.txt

The list of all contributors from who we have the papers is kept on Worg at https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html, so that committers can check if a patch can go into the core.

The assignment process does not allways go smoothly, and it has happened several times that it gets stuck or forgotten at the FSF. The contact at the FSF for this is: mailto:[email protected]

Emails from the paper submitter have been ignored in the past, but an email from me (Carsten) as the maintainer of Org mode has usually fixed such cases within a few days.