[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Maintainership succession
- From: "John Gardner" <john.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 07:43:07 -0700
Thanks to the new team. We are all indebted to you for stepping in and taking
over this important project.
John Boyer, you have done a fabulous job, and I can well understand your need
to slow down. Liblouis is your legacy. What a legacy!
John G
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[mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian Egli
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:54 AM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Maintainership succession
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
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
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