[[!toc ]] Q&A: live Duration: 10:07 If you have questions and the speaker has not indicated public contact information on this page, please feel free to e-mail us at and we'll forward your question to the speaker. # Talk [[!template id="vid" vidid="mainVideo" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.png" captions="""""" size="14.7M" duration="10:07" other_resources="""[Download .org](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry.org) [Download --compressed56.webm (9.5MB)](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--compressed56.webm) [Download --main.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.vtt) [Download --main--chapters.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main--chapters.vtt) [View on Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/w/naNvWzM2jjj5ownu9zmbAf) """]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="mainVideo" data=""" 00:00 Introduction 00:47 What is a free software maintainer? 02:19 What do I do as the Org maintainer? 03:24 Do you see a pattern here? 04:18 What a free software maintainer is or should be 05:03 Summary 05:26 ACDC: Asynchronous Collective Distributed Care 06:28 How can you help Emacs maintainers? 06:37 Become a maintainer for your own project, however small 06:56 Volunteer as a contributor steward for another project 07:10 Learn how to teach 07:25 Test and enhance the project's contribution process 07:35 Take care of the project's calls for help 07:52 Encourage users from outside the project to contribute to the core forum 08:08 Let the core forum know about what happens in this outside world 08:16 Propose your help for non-code tasks 08:26 If you expect someone else to fix your bug, try fixing someone else's bug first 08:42 Don't expect the maintainer to be a hotline 08:49 Complete this list 08:57 Yes, this is hard 09:35 Thanks """]] # Q&A [[!template id="vid" vidid="qanda" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--answers.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--answers.png" size="153M" duration="58:55" other_resources="""[Download --answers--chapters.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--answers--chapters.vtt) """]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="qanda" data=""" 00:00 Thanks 04:30 How did you come up with this knowledge? By doing or by experience or by reading books? Which? 06:10 How did you come to start using Org? 08:39 You have recently overseen a major transition for org mode maintenance. What would you advise for other teams that are preparing for transitions so that processes can be maintained with minimal disruption? How do we take processes that were originally maintained by a single person to one maintained by multiple people? 10:55 Which place is the right place to request a dark mode in Org Mode website? 11:27 More thanks 15:09 Does this mean that you do not need to be technical to become a maintainer? 17:24 What does the day of the Org Mode maintainer look like? Lots of hours of work every day? 21:11 Do you think having centralized roles for people to carry out certain tasks such as documentation across multiple areas would be a constructive approach to inviting new maintainers (in contrast to "every person take an issue of their own choosing", which leaves parts of maintenance and documentation neglected)? 24:21 I think Org has and may potentially greatly influence Emacs development. If you would tend to agree, do you have places where you feel Emacs need to "pull back" harder, to influence Org? Key areas where Org is clearly "leading the way"? 27:52 Could you expand a little on what's happening on contrib? 35:32 Orgdown 54:54 What about backlinks? """]] # Description