From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:51:02 +0100 Message-ID: <338E1C7C-78A6-45AE-BFE7-970FFA39E085@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43197 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PHxaX-0003U2-KB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:51:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHxaV-0004y8-GE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:51:09 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:65088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHxaV-0004y2-B9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:51:07 -0500 Received: by bwz16 with SMTP id 16so5232726bwz.0 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:51:06 -0800 (PST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Org Mode Dear all, after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. This has not been an easy decision to make. Org-mode has been a very important part of my life during these years and given me as much energy as it has taken. I am proud of this creation and extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with the absolutely outstanding community around it. But the day-to-day responsibilities have worn me down, and I need to step back, move on, and focus on other things. I am very excited that I have found Bastien Guerry willing to take over. Bastien has been involved with this project almost from the beginning and I believe he knows more about both the spirit and the technicalities of Org-mode than anybody else. I am sure he will do an excellent job. There is a core of very knowledgeable and great people who carry the project together. I hope very much that everyone will be helping out Bastien just like you have all helped me - then this will be a very smooth transition. As a formal date for the transition we have picked January 1st 2011. Until then, I will spend time to clean up where I can, and to document the maintainer tasks in the new README_maintainer file in the git repo. On January 1st I will also switch the "Donate" button on the web page to point to an account owned by Bastien, to help him offset any costs involved with his contribution of time and money (like the web server that he has been sponsoring so far). If you always wanted to throw a donation in my direction but have not found the right moment to do so - this is still possible until the end of December. I am not going to disappear from the project. I will still be on the mailing list, answering questions when I can, and contribute code and fixes when I find time to do so. Maybe, with the daily tasks taken off my hands, I will even be able to write bigger chunks of code. But all of this will be on a much less regular basis than the daily flush of emails I am sending out now. I hope very much that you will all continue to enjoy a life in plain text :) With kind regards - Carsten