Re: [O] New maintainer

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 18.04.2013 18:53, schrieb Bastien:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer.
>
> Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees.
> Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any.
>
> I'm glad I had this opportunity to work as "Robin" and
> I'm even more glad "Batman" may strike back!
>
> :)

Hi Bastien,

have been afk for some days, please let me close up to all thanks seen here.
What's have been quite impressive already was the pure amount of mailings, you 
delt with day by day.

Having seen you working that hard also raises some concern for now: that daily galeere must be costly: whoever undertakes it, will pay a price. It's your honor having payed 
it for all of us. So far can't consider this stepping down anything else as a loss for org-mode.

While ignoring circumstances of your resign, it's no secret, some unpleasant 
events happended last weeks, made your task more burdensome as necessary.
I'm not speaking of possible errors - everyone who works will make errors. Who 
works outstanding might make outstanding errors.
Purely abstractly spoken(!)

OTHO the very best mind a team has --i.e. Carsten--, should not take the most burdensome tasks. IMHO Carsten should be spared for strategic decisions, define and decide the 
path of further development.

In case you didn't lose your interest and just that recent unpleasant experiences caused your resign, what about staying maintainer backed by all this confidence revealed 
beside of some new experience?

Also maintainer must not mean being strictly a single person, even if languages 
grammar doesn't foresee otherwise.
Regarding recent difficulties, probably it's wise, if Carsten has a closer 
look, decides in cases from time to time.
IIUC Emacs itself was driven in a similar way last years more or less outspoken 
- consider this part of it's success story.

Best regards,

Andreas