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
