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To: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>

Hi Bastien,

Am 22.04.2013 00:39, schrieb Bastien:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> thanks for the kind words.
>
> The decision to step down after 8.0 was taken a long time ago,
> before the recent problems on the list.  I had to find someone
> willing to step in before I could announce this.
>

Okay, a good news in circumstances.

> I agree "maintainer" is not necessary a single person: my main
> purpose was to build a team, so that future maintainer(s) would
> feel okay to act as you suggest, for strategic decisions rather
> than everyday ground-level stuff.
>
> This position is easy to describe but difficult to hold,

Precisely.

> because it depends so much on the community.
>
> This *is* the real challenge I see now: that each of us endorses
> some kind of responsability, some co-maintainership feeling, and
> act as constructively as possible---be it for org-mode, worg, the
> website or whatever.
>
> I already can feel some go in this direction and that's great :)
>

Indeed.

Nonetheless, WRT the amount of traffic IMHO having someone to range things a little bit before Carsten must tell will be a great advantage.

Thanks all proving that great stuff,

Andreas