Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-18 Thread Manish
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I am a keen user of org-mode, whose uses for which seem never to > become well defined: as soon as I think I understand it, it > morphs, or the horizons of my understanding recede from view. No > amount of praise can adequa

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-18 Thread Scot Becker
Org-mode is just a cool way to organize, to write, to collect and keep data. Many thanks to you, Carsten, for your imagination and hard work, and to you Bastien, for your willingness to carry this torch further. Scot ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Pleas

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-18 Thread Alan E. Davis
I am a keen user of org-mode, whose uses for which seem never to become well defined: as soon as I think I understand it, it morphs, or the horizons of my understanding recede from view. No amount of praise can adequately pay tribute to the massively ingenious organic entity that is org-mode. Th

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-17 Thread e20100633
Hello, Carsten Dominik writes: > Dear all, > > after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for > me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. [snip (52 lines)] I, as a simple org-mode user, just want to thank you, for all of the work you've done. It makes mine easier

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-17 Thread Matt Price
Just adding my voice to the chorus -- Carsten, org has made emacs work for me, finally, and also made my faster, more organized, and better-integrated with the web. I've been so inspired watching you respond with lightning speed t othe multitude of feature requests and bug reports o nthe web, I've

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-17 Thread Bernt Hansen
Bastien writes: > First of all: *thanks* Carsten for Org! > > Moreover thanks for your patience while building this software and this > community over the years. There is a true spirit of mutual respect and > mutual learning in this list -- we wouldn't have grown so fast and so > far without you

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-17 Thread Achim Gratz
Carsten Dominik writes: > after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for > me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. Thanks for everything and "may the text be with you"! :-) I've always been impressed by how fast, yet smooth org-mode has developed in the past two o

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-16 Thread Eric S Fraga
Eric S Fraga writes: [...] > Yes, Carsten, that you ever so much for such a life changing piece of arggh. should be "thank" even org doesn't help me type the right words... ;-) -- photos: www.flickr.com/photos/ballfresno ___ Emacs-or

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-16 Thread Eden Cardim
> "Carsten" == Carsten Dominik writes: Carsten> Dear all, Carsten> after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for Carsten> me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. Thank you for a stellar piece of software, enjoy your "retirement", you deserve it. W

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-16 Thread Jambunathan K
Carsten Thanks for Orgmode. Get some well deserved sleep :-). Bastien I hope, under your maintainership, Orgmode will continue to assimilate the good things that are in the wild and make it all it's own. I find Worg much better than Emacswiki. I am sure you will find more innovative means to

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-16 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hi Carsten, > Carsten Dominik writes: >> after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for me to let go >> and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. > > Thank you so much for the immense goodwill and generosity you have daily > demonstrated in your work on Org-mode and here on this

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-16 Thread Tassilo Horn
Hi Carsten, thanks a lot for Org and the incredible job you've been doing! It was a pleasure to participate in this great community, and I'm sure it'll be a pleasure with Bastien taking the lead, too. Bye, Tassilo ___ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Pleas

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Nov 15 2010,Carsten Dominik wrote: > Dear all, > > after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for > me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. [snipped 38 lines] > > I hope very much that you will all continue to enjoy a life > in plain text :) > Thank you f

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Matt Lundin
Carsten, Carsten Dominik writes: > after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for > me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. > Thank you so much for the immense goodwill and generosity you have daily demonstrated in your work on Org-mode and here on this mailing l

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Detlef Steuer
I'm using computers since, well, forever. I can remember just two moments when I really got completely exited over some piece of software. First, some times in the nineties, yes, deep in last century, when I found out about R, and then again only few years back, about orgmode. Such a cool pie

Re: [Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Eric S Fraga
Bernt Hansen writes: > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for >> me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. [...] > Hi Carsten, > > Thank you _so_ much for starting this project and shepherding it into > what it is today. This

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Bernt Hansen
Carsten Dominik writes: > after 7 years of responsibility for Org-mode, it is time for > me to let go and step down as the maintainer of Org-mode. > > This has not been an easy decision to make. Org-mode has > been a very important part of my life during these years > and given me as much energy

[Orgmode] Re: Bastien is going to become the maintainer of Org mode in January

2010-11-15 Thread Ulf Stegemann
Thank you, Carsten, thank you, thank you, thank you for creating this project and putting so much excellent work into it. Also, thanks to all Carsten clones; I'm still not convinced there's only one Carsten ;) And of course a warm welcome to Bastien as new maintainer! Ulf _