Re: [O] Changing the maintainer

[Christian Moe]

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