[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Maintainership succession
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 06:17:21 -0500
I worked closely with Christian and others on this transition. I am
delighted that my legacy is in good hands. At 78 I just tire too easily.
However,I will continue to do what I can on an ad hoc bais. I will also
continue to promote the use of the software and to serve as a kind of
memory of the projects.
John
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 12:53:42PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> John Boyer and ViewPlus initiated the liblouis project which includes
> liblouis and liblouisutdml 12 years ago as an open source tool to
> translate and format braille. With the help of ViewPlus John has
> dedicated a lot of time into this project, has built a tremendous
> community around it and has improved many a persons life.
>
> Now at the age of 78 he wishes to move on and step back from the
> day-to-day work of maintaining both liblouis and liblouisutdml. For that
> reason we propose to move to a team maintainership where Mesar Hameed,
> Bert Frees and Christian Egli offer to take over the maintenance work
> for liblouis. This is a big shoe to fill even as a team we probably do
> not have the expertise, power and full time dedication as John has it.
> But we hope that together and with the occasional help of John and the
> mailing list we can keep liblouis moving and bring it to new heights.
>
> The details will have to be hashed out but it will probably mean that
> Christian will keep on doing releases on a regular bases, Mesar will
> work with table authors to improve the language coverage and Bert has
> some plans up his sleeves to improve the liblouis documentation, the
> test coverage and maybe even some of the core opcodes.
>
> Note that while this is excellent news for liblouis itself it also means
> that there is a need for a maintainer or a team of maintainers for
> liblouisutdml. Please step up if you want to make sure that
> liblouisutdml is moving forward.
>
> On behalf of the new maintainer team I would like to thank John for his
> tremendous efforts and I'm exited to bring liblouis forward with the
> help of John and the community.
>
> Thanks
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Egli
> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>
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