Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-23 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Thanks for all of your hard work on org-mode Bastien! Watching you in action has taught me a great deal about good project/community leadership. If there's anything I can do to help with the transition, please let me know. Regards, Jason

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-22 Thread Matt Price
Just echoing what everyone else has said: Bastien, your tenure at the helm has just been fabulous. 8.0 is just an amazing release and org already just amazingly great has become even better. Carsten, it's so generous for you to come back to this project to which you have already devoted so much

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-22 Thread Jay Kerns
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Julian M. Burgos wrote: > I echo all the thanks that other people already gave. My digital life > orbits around org-mode, so thanks to everyone who contributed to this > project. Keep it up!! > > Julian > I have been watching these multiple messages go by trying

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-22 Thread Julian M. Burgos
I echo all the thanks that other people already gave. My digital life orbits around org-mode, so thanks to everyone who contributed to this project. Keep it up!! Julian -- Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD Hafrannsóknastofnunin/Marine Research Institute Skúlagata 4, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland Sími/Tele

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-22 Thread Andreas Röhler
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 circum

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread 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. I agree "maintainer" is not necessary a single person: my main purpose was to buil

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread AG
Bastien gnu.org> writes: > > 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 st

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread 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 bac

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Bastien writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> It's also been a pleasure to witness the surprisingly successful >> marriage of two different coding styles: Bastien's damn-the-torpedoes >> patch-the-SOB-and-get-it-out-the-door approach, matched with Nicolas' >> return to first principles: structu

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread Bastien
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > It's also been a pleasure to witness the surprisingly successful > marriage of two different coding styles: Bastien's damn-the-torpedoes > patch-the-SOB-and-get-it-out-the-door approach, matched with Nicolas' > return to first principles: structure and cleanliness. I'm q

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 21.4.2013, at 10:06, Jambunathan K wrote: > Jambunathan K writes: > >>> Well, the FSF's intention here is to make sure that contributors report >>> back when they change employers, and the new employer doesn't want that >>> his employees contribute to some GNU project (maybe because that pr

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Bastien writes: > 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! > >

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread T.F. Torrey
Thank you for your hard work, Bastien. You've done a fantastic job under unusually adversarial conditions. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Bastien wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. > > Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. > Please raise your thumbs

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-21 Thread Jambunathan K
Jambunathan K writes: >> Well, the FSF's intention here is to make sure that contributors report >> back when they change employers, and the new employer doesn't want that >> his employees contribute to some GNU project (maybe because that project >> is in the same business as the company). So I

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-20 Thread Ian Barton
On 18/04/13 22:52, Tom Davey wrote: Hi everybody, I'm just an Org user, one of the many anonymous persons who have benefited from this fantastic piece of software. Over the past two years I have come to use Org every day, all day long, more than any other application with the possible exception

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-20 Thread Jambunathan K
Tassilo Horn writes: > Jambunathan K writes: > >> How do you interpret the following block extracted from my assignment >> >> , >> | 2. Developer will report occasionally, on Developer’s initiative >> | and whenever requested by FSF, the changes and/ or enhancements >> | whic

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
You've done great work Bastien! And I look forward to Batman Returns! Bastien writes: > 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

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Russell Adams
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 06:53:32PM +0200, Bastien wrote: > 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 m

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Rainer Stengele
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

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Adolfo Benedetti
Hi Bastien, Thank you for your hard work and efforts as org-mode-maintainer, >Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. nice, thank you Carsten! cheers -- Adolfo Benedetti M +31 614 706 176 2013/4/19 Charles Philip Chan > Bastien wrote: > > Hi Bastien, > > >I'm stepping down

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Philip Chan
Bastien wrote: Hi Bastien, >I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. Thank you for all the hard work you have done in maintaining Org-mode. >Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. >Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. +1 Charles -- Sent from Kaiten Mail. Ple

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Sean O'Halpin
Hi Bastien, I'd like to thank you for the fabulous job you've done as maintainer. Best wishes, Sean On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Bastien wrote: > 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

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Bastien writes: > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. Thats bad news, managing Org-mode appears like such a huge task, and I always wondered how you were able to deal with all those mails and patches and bugs with such efficiency, and detailled knowledge about all those unnumerable features

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Tassilo Horn
Jambunathan K writes: > How do you interpret the following block extracted from my assignment > > , > | 2. Developer will report occasionally, on Developer’s initiative > | and whenever requested by FSF, the changes and/ or enhancements > | which are covered by this contract,

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:24:46AM +, Charles Berry wrote: > Bastien gnu.org> writes: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. > > You have done an awesome job. > > This is still the "friendliest little town" on the internet thanks to > your patience and good judg

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Christian Moe
Bastien, What the others said... Thanks for all your work! It's been a pleasure to follow Org-mode. Yours, Christian Bastien writes: > 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

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Robert Klein
Hi Bastien, thank you very very much for maintaining org-mode for the last two years. You did a great job maintaining org-mode and keeping its community together. I agree with everything Carsten says in his mail "Changing the maintainer". While I am happy it is Carsten of all people who takes u

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Noorul Islam Kamal Malmiyoda
Bastien, I use org-mode every day and it is really great to see that this project is always growing. You did an excellent job taking this to 8.0. Carsten, Welcome back and looking forward to 8.x Thanks and Regards Noorul On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Bastien wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm s

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
Hello Bastien, Thanks a lot for the great work so far. You are the best. On Apr 19 2013, Bastien wrote: > 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

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Bernt Hansen
Bastien writes: > 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! > >

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Charles Berry
Bastien gnu.org> writes: > > Dear all, > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. > You have done an awesome job. This is still the "friendliest little town" on the internet thanks to your patience and good judgment in no small part. And 8.0 is a fine product. > Carsten accepted to st

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Tom Davey
Hi everybody, I'm just an Org user, one of the many anonymous persons who have benefited from this fantastic piece of software. Over the past two years I have come to use Org every day, all day long, more than any other application with the possible exception of a Web browser. It's hard to overest

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Hello Bastien, On 18 April 2013 12:53, Bastien wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. > Thank you for all the work you've done. > > Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. > Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. > > Thumbs up from me as w

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Alan L Tyree
Jambunathan K writes: > Alan L Tyree writes: > >> Of course, I know that you will think that I am confused. > > You are not only confused. You are in hurry and in grave error. I thought so. Thanks so much for clearing this up for me. > > I am quoting an extract of Bastien's words, > >

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Bastien
Hi Thomas, t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: > Thank you for your excellent work as maintainer. I'm pleased to have > had the opportunity to work with you. Having you improve the documentation while Nicolas and I were hard working on it was a great relief, thanks again for that. > You sho

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Jambunathan K
Alan L Tyree writes: > Of course, I know that you will think that I am confused. You are not only confused. You are in hurry and in grave error. I am quoting an extract of Bastien's words, the copyright assignment process would undermine the whole purpose of the GPL license It

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Bastien, Bastien writes: > Dear all, > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. Thank you for your excellent work as maintainer. I'm pleased to have had the opportunity to work with you. > > Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. > Please raise your thumbs up or your co

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Alan Schmitt
Bastien writes: > Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. > Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. Thumbs up! And thank you so much for what you did. Alan

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Alan L Tyree
Jambunathan K writes: > Bastien writes: > >> And it does not take too big a brain to understand why: if people >> were allowed to retract their assignment when they want for changes >> that have been published, the copyright assignment process would >> undermine the whole purpose of the GPL lice

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Jambunathan K
> Just trying to reconcile my understanding of your situation with how > you write about it. This post (not by me) summarizes my position well. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-04/msg00096.html I have also criticized FSF's arbitrary handling of my request here.

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Jambunathan K
Bastien writes: > And it does not take too big a brain to understand why: if people > were allowed to retract their assignment when they want for changes > that have been published, the copyright assignment process would > undermine the whole purpose of the GPL license, which is to make > it pos

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread François Pinard
Bastien writes: > Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. Bastien, your maintainership has been just outstanding, so far that I could judge. You're among the great maintainers I happened to meet, and I tremendously enjoyed your way of driving the project. Let me thank you for it

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Bastien
Rasmus writes: > I expect you will still be around the mailing list, no? I'll focus on something else, but I'll stick around for sure, at least to ask questions and report bugs! -- Bastien

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Aaron Ecay
Hi Bastien, 2013ko apirilak 18an, Bastien-ek idatzi zuen: [...] > I'm glad I had this opportunity to work as "Robin" and > I'm even more glad "Batman" may strike back! Just as Batman and Robin are often seen together, I hope you’ll continue to be a presence in the org community. I always appre

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Detlef Steuer
The king is dead, long live the king! :-) Thank you, Bastien, for all the work! And thank you, Carsten, for all the work to come! Detlef On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:53:32 +0200 Bastien wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm stepping down as the Org maintainer. > > Carsten accepted to step up, if the commu

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Bastien
Please let's not reopen this issue. Jambunathan signed the FSF copyright assignment for his past and future changes to Emacs code. He claims that he can retract this assignment for changes he made against some Emacs files. FSF says this is not possible. And it does not take too big a brain to u

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Rasmus
Bastien writes: > 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! Thanks for your h

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread John Hendy
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jambunathan K wrote: > >> Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. >> Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. > > To the new maintainer, > > My changes to ox-html.el and ox-odt.el are not assigned to FSF. So > please correct the headers

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Glyn Millington
Bastien writes: > 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! A huge thumbs up

Re: [O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread Jambunathan K
> Carsten accepted to step up, if the community agrees. > Please raise your thumbs up or your concerns, if any. To the new maintainer, My changes to ox-html.el and ox-odt.el are not assigned to FSF. So please correct the headers of these file to reflect the reality. Also be respectful of my

[O] New maintainer

2013-04-18 Thread 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! :) -- Bastien

Re: [O] New maintainer for MobileOrg on iOS

2012-09-19 Thread Ranmocy
Hi Richard, I am just begin to watch the project after it expire right the time T.T There is so many iOS apps live without App Store. They just release on their own website. I found that you open the source. Maybe you can have a try to post in news list (or HackerNews?) to transfer ownership of th

Re: [O] New maintainer for MobileOrg on iOS

2012-08-21 Thread Andre Powell
I hope this is not a stupid question, but will the app eventually fail? Andre It is not what happens to you, but your response that determines your character.

Re: [O] New maintainer for MobileOrg on iOS

2012-08-20 Thread Bastien
Hi Richard, I forwarded this message on the G+ group: https://plus.google.com/102778904320752967064/posts/QMDpT31Am7C I hope someone will volunteer. MobileOrg would be the only reason for which I would have bought an iPhone, but since you don't have one anymore, I don't feel so ashamed :) I

[O] New maintainer for MobileOrg on iOS

2012-08-20 Thread Richard Moreland
I'm looking for someone to take over maintaining MobileOrg for iOS. My iOS Developer subscription ($99/yr) is about to expire on September 7, and I'm hoping I can find someone who may be interested in iOS development to carry it forward before then. I also just got a notification from Dropbox tha