Re: [O] Not merging org-lparse, org-xhtml & org-odt to the core

[Matt Price]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Christian Moe <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I probably shouldn't butt into this, and I understand the technical issues
> too poorly to offer suggestions on merging. But as a grateful user, and and
> a semi-active participant on this list, I'd like to voice three concerns.
>
> 1. Org-mode maintained by someone able and happy to do it.
>
> We are fortunate that Bastien stepped up to take over from Carsten as
> maintainer. Serving the Org-mode community as maintainer on a voluntary
> basis is a major personal commitment, and requires community support,
> including emotional backing and /helpful/ feedback. Jambunathan, please keep
> criticism of how Bastien has handled your work constructive and to the
> point.
>
> 2. Jambunathan's excellent org-odt maintained as an integral part of
> Org-mode.
>
> Org-odt opens up Org-mode as an all-round authoring environment for users
> like me who are expected to deliver their work in wp formats. Bastien, and
> other core developers who may be involved, please go an extra mile if
> necessary to make sure it will end up actively maintained as core Org.
>
> 3. The friendly atmosphere of this mailing list preserved.
>
> I think Bastien's replies around noon today are exemplary in this regard.
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
>


just +1ing this -- I think when people work really hard on these
voluntary contributions it's not at all unusual for them to feel
frustrated when the process doesn't move as smoothly as it could.  But
I truly believe both Bastien and Jambunathan are doing the very best
they can and making fantastic contributions to the tool we all love.
And I am very thankful to people like Christian for making it a
priority to keep this list a friendly and enormously helpful resource
for developers and users both.

Matt