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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
To: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in	January
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:45:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE325B2.2000002@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <338E1C7C-78A6-45AE-BFE7-970FFA39E085@gmail.com>

When I first started using org-mode, the way I do my work became more
efficient and much easier. Now, if I want to do something new, I first
take a look at the org-mode manual to see if I can use org-mode to do
the new thing. I haven't been able to fit org-mode into everything, but
I haven't given up trying.

Carsten, thank you so much for developing and maintaining org-mode. Not
only is it an utterly great piece of software, but the community around
it is very friendly and open, something which I credit to you. Every
time I've sent a ridiculous question to the mailing list, I've received
a polite and helpful response. On other lists, the response would have
been "RTFM."

Bastien, I think org-mode will be in very fine hands when you take over.
It is clear to me that under your leadership org-mode will continue to
improve for a long time to come.

Scott Randby

On 11/15/2010 06:51 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-17  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-15 11:51 Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January Carsten Dominik
2010-11-15 12:35 ` Russell Adams
2010-11-15 15:26   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2010-11-15 12:59 ` Ulf Stegemann
2010-11-15 13:02 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-15 18:42   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-16 22:16     ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-15 14:17 ` A. Ryan Reynolds
2010-11-15 15:35 ` Nathan Neff
2010-11-15 16:11 ` Noorul Islam
2010-11-15 18:08 ` Manuel Hermenegildo
2010-11-15 21:10 ` Detlef Steuer
2010-11-15 21:50 ` Christian Moe
2010-11-15 22:16   ` Samuel Wales
2010-11-16  1:26 ` Matt Lundin
2010-11-16  8:26   ` Sebastien Vauban
2010-11-16  2:08 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2010-11-16  5:07 ` suvayu ali
2010-11-16  8:08 ` Stefan Vollmar
2010-11-16  8:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-11-16 10:10 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-16 12:52 ` Eden Cardim
2010-11-16 17:07 ` peter.frings
2010-11-16 18:18 ` Puneeth
2010-11-16 18:37   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-11-16 18:57     ` Amit Sethi
2010-11-17  0:45 ` Scott Randby [this message]
2010-11-17  4:04 ` Nick Dokos
2010-11-17  9:20 ` Achim Gratz
2010-11-17 17:15   ` Matt Price
2010-11-17 14:36 ` Bastien
2010-11-17 16:39   ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-17 23:36 ` e20100633
2010-11-18 11:51   ` Alan E. Davis
2010-11-18 13:02     ` Scot Becker
2010-11-19  6:07     ` Manish
2010-11-20 18:38 ` Michael Brand

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