From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org list" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Changing the maintainer
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:21:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y5cf7zq8.fsf@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72A14A3B-42A1-4974-A51F-82436A623B8C@gmail.com>
Welcome back!
Yours,
Christian
Carsten Dominik writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> as Bastien has written in a related thread, the current idea
> is that I will take over the maintainership of Org-mode
> once more. I have seen no objections so far, so I am assuming
> that we should go ahead with this plan.
>
> Let me start by extending my (and I am sure, everyones)
> gratitude to Bastien. I think he has done an incredible
> job over the last two years, keeping Org-mode on course
> and also supporting significant changes that we have seen
> with the release of version 8.0.
>
> Bastien's activity has been unmatched. He has answered
> a huge amount of questions in the mailing list, fixed an
> uncounted number of bugs and he has been designing and applying
> changes over the entire breadth of the Org code base. This
> is no easy feat and I really admire his work. Besides this,
> he has done amazing work keeping the community together and
> making sure that the mailing list remains IMO one of the prime
> places on the internet.
>
> THANK YOU, Bastien.
>
> I will leave the donations button on his name until the end of
> April, so if you want to express your thanks to him in this
> way, you have that possibility. If not, writing to him and
> expressing your amazement with his achievements in the
> last two years will probably make him as happy.
>
> One of the main things Bastien has done is to make space for
> other developers, while making sure that the development
> maintains a maximum of compatibility, usability and hackability.
> It has taken a long time to get the new exporter into the
> main stream, and I clearly think it was worth the wait.
> We now have a complete set of exporters, immediately in the
> first release that is based on the new parser and exporter
> framework. What Nicolas has achieved I still cannot fully
> comprehend. The exporter side of Org-mode was very usable,
> but it was an unmaintainable mess, without clarity. Now,
> writing a new exporter has become extremely simple, everyone
> can do it. Due to the ingenious filter and inheritance
> system, new exporters can be written with very little code.
> Maintenance will be simple, since this is ONE parser,
> one framework.
>
> When I handed over the maintainership to Bastien two years
> ago, I was worn down. In the mean time, my life has not become
> less full, and so this time around, I will make sure that the
> project does not swallow me. I hope very much that we as a
> community can continue on the path Bastien has set, with a growing
> number of people taking responsibility for specific parts of
> Org. I need to re-familiarize myself with many things, I am not
> up to speed with some of the new developments, so I need to
> study. But when this is done, I will approach some of you and
> ask for help, it would be great if some of you can say yes and
> work with me. I will see my own task mainly in removing
> obstacles for everyone, and in coordinating releases. I also
> have coding ideas and plans, but those will have second priority.
> I am really glad that Bastien has promised to stick around, and
> he will still lead the round of fixes that usually follow
> after a major release.
>
> I am looking forward to again interact more with you all.
>
> Cheers
>
> - Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-19 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-18 22:07 Changing the maintainer Carsten Dominik
2013-04-19 1:16 ` Mike McLean
2013-04-19 4:34 ` John Wiegley
2013-04-19 7:21 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2013-04-19 9:23 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-20 1:33 ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-23 11:38 ` Julien Cubizolles
2013-04-23 13:52 ` Eric S Fraga
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