On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 23:40, Henri Menke wrote:
It would be really cool if ConTeXt LMTX had a/the official repository.
There will never be an “official repository” for ConTeXt.
There will probably be an official repository soon (even if created by extracting and committing the zips from the website).
As it stands ConTeXt also does not accept “Pull Requests”,
Maybe not pull requests, but Hans happily accepts any patches. Committing code to GitHub and sending Hans a link should be a valid form of a patch :)
because it is developed by PRAGMA ADE for their and only their purposes.
This couldn't be further from the truth. First of all: PRAGMA *IS* Hans, and everything being developed there is done by Hans and Hans only, most of the time with absolutely zero benefits for the business (or more likely actively hurting the business as he might be working on interesting features requested by users rather than boring stuff required for customers), and most of the time outside of regular working hours (nights, weekends, ...). Second: tons of features have been added on user requests, and because Hans likes challenges. Not because pragma required or approved it.
The fact that ConTeXt is availble open source to the public and that Hans replies to bugs that don't affect his own work is merely a nice gesture of PRAGMA to the community.
Of Hans personally, not PRAGMA. (OK, the single coworker of his had to agree on Hans wasting so much time doing crazy things.) Mojca