Re: Bug#1069135: org-bullets: please consider switching to a more up-to-date upstream
Hi,
Сб 27 апр 2024 @ 16:34 Aymeric Agon-Rambosson <aymeric.agon@yandex.com>:
> If you are looking for replacements for org-bullets, there is also
> org-modern (https://github.com/minad/org-modern), from Daniel
> Mendler.
>
> I've been using it happily for quite some time now.
>
> Generally, Daniel Mendler's projects are very well implemented and
> maintained. I maintain 4 or 5 of his projects in Debian and I have
> very little work.
>
> Le mercredi 17 avril 2024 à 13:02, Léon Lamberov
> <dogsleg@debian.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>
>> Вт 16 апр 2024 @ 18:13 Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>:
>>
>>> Source: org-bullets
>>> Version: 0.2.4-3
>>> Severity: normal
>>
>>> I noticed some deprecation warnings in org-bullets'
>>> native-compilation log, so searched for an upstream fix. What
>>> I found was that our current upstream source is a decade old:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
>>>
>>> and that MELPA provides their users with a package from this
>>> fork, which has activity from four years ago:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/integral-dw/org-bullets
>>>
>>> It looks like integral-dw's fork might now the defacto
>>> upstream, because sabof's project looks dead. Maybe a PR/MR
>>> for some of those compilation warnings could be a useful way to
>>> test for a living and responsive upstream?
>>
>> Thanks for your investigation!
>>
>> As I can see, org-super-star-mode (also from integral-dw) has
>> more
>> features than org-bullets and better support (last commit was in
>> Jan
>> 2023). So, I guess, we could update org-bullets to integral-dw's
>> version
>> and also package org-super-star-mode, and then, probably,
>> deprecate
>> org-bullets in favor of org-super-star-mode. What do you think
>> of the
>> proposal?
>>
>> [super-star] https://github.com/integral-dw/org-superstar-mode
I've just uploaded integral-dw's clone of org-bullets. But I'm not going
to close the bug, since we probably still need to migrate to some
alternative.
Thanks to Nicolas and Agon-Rambosson <aymeric.agon@yandex.com>:
> If you are looking for replacements for org-bullets, there is also
> org-modern (https://github.com/minad/org-modern), from Daniel
> Mendler.
>
> I've been using it happily for quite some time now.
>
> Generally, Daniel Mendler's projects are very well implemented and
> maintained. I maintain 4 or 5 of his projects in Debian and I have
> very little work.
>
> Le mercredi 17 avril 2024 à 13:02, Léon Lamberov
> <dogsleg@debian.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>
>> Вт 16 апр 2024 @ 18:13 Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>:
>>
>>> Source: org-bullets
>>> Version: 0.2.4-3
>>> Severity: normal
>>
>>> I noticed some deprecation warnings in org-bullets'
>>> native-compilation log, so searched for an upstream fix. What
>>> I found was that our current upstream source is a decade old:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
>>>
>>> and that MELPA provides their users with a package from this
>>> fork, which has activity from four years ago:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/integral-dw/org-bullets
>>>
>>> It looks like integral-dw's fork might now the defacto
>>> upstream, because sabof's project looks dead. Maybe a PR/MR
>>> for some of those compilation warnings could be a useful way to
>>> test for a living and responsive upstream?
>>
>> Thanks for your investigation!
>>
>> As I can see, org-super-star-mode (also from integral-dw) has
>> more
>> features than org-bullets and better support (last commit was in
>> Jan
>> 2023). So, I guess, we could update org-bullets to integral-dw's
>> version
>> and also package org-super-star-mode, and then, probably,
>> deprecate
>> org-bullets in favor of org-super-star-mode. What do you think
>> of the
>> proposal?
>>
>> [super-star] https://github.com/integral-dw/org-superstar-mode
I've just uploaded integral-dw's clone of org-bullets. But I'm not going
to close the bug, since we probably still need to migrate to some
alternative.
Thanks to Nicolas and Agon-Rambosson <aymeric.agon@yandex.com>:
> If you are looking for replacements for org-bullets, there is also
> org-modern (https://github.com/minad/org-modern), from Daniel
> Mendler.
>
> I've been using it happily for quite some time now.
>
> Generally, Daniel Mendler's projects are very well implemented and
> maintained. I maintain 4 or 5 of his projects in Debian and I have
> very little work.
>
> Le mercredi 17 avril 2024 à 13:02, Léon Lamberov
> <dogsleg@debian.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>
>> Вт 16 апр 2024 @ 18:13 Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>:
>>
>>> Source: org-bullets
>>> Version: 0.2.4-3
>>> Severity: normal
>>
>>> I noticed some deprecation warnings in org-bullets'
>>> native-compilation log, so searched for an upstream fix. What
>>> I found was that our current upstream source is a decade old:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
>>>
>>> and that MELPA provides their users with a package from this
>>> fork, which has activity from four years ago:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/integral-dw/org-bullets
>>>
>>> It looks like integral-dw's fork might now the defacto
>>> upstream, because sabof's project looks dead. Maybe a PR/MR
>>> for some of those compilation warnings could be a useful way to
>>> test for a living and responsive upstream?
>>
>> Thanks for your investigation!
>>
>> As I can see, org-super-star-mode (also from integral-dw) has
>> more
>> features than org-bullets and better support (last commit was in
>> Jan
>> 2023). So, I guess, we could update org-bullets to integral-dw's
>> version
>> and also package org-super-star-mode, and then, probably,
>> deprecate
>> org-bullets in favor of org-super-star-mode. What do you think
>> of the
>> proposal?
>>
>> [super-star] https://github.com/integral-dw/org-superstar-mode
I've just uploaded integral-dw's clone of org-bullets. But I'm not going
to close the bug, since we probably still need to migrate to some
alternative. Thanks to Nicholas and Aymeric for suggestions.
Regards,
Lev
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