Re: Stepping down and moving on

David, you wrote Wednesday, November 09, 2016 5:09 PM > I have accepted a full-time development (and team management) position > with another company. Due to their project and team expansion plans, > I will be starting already in December. I sincerely hope you're finding your new job engaging

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On 19/11/16 00:14, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2016-11-18 18:27 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : >> > Francisco Vila writes: >> > >>> >> David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your >>> >> huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck. >> > >> > In

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On 11/18/2016 6:14 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > I didn't mean Punctual as in 'fast delivery' but > rather tiny and sporadic. "Pointed" maybe? Or "punctuated?" -- Karlin High Missouri, USA ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

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2016-11-18 18:27 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > Francisco Vila writes: > >> David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your >> huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck. > > In spite of the respectively English and Latin prefixes having the

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se forgive me - but I always got the impression that David did a lot of the everyday coding and bug fixing and adding new features, stuff like that. Sorry if I mixed that up! - composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this mes

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On 18.11.2016 18:47, SoundsFromSound wrote: Will someone be brought on to "replace" your primary role specifically, or will your role default and merge onto the existing members who have already been active on the development team alongside you for the past years? Just curious what this

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On 18.11.2016 18:27, David Kastrup wrote: Francisco Vila writes: David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck. In spite of the respectively English and Latin prefixes having the same formal meaning, the

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ls (for beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Stepping-down-and-moving-on-tp196394p196844.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing l

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Francisco Vila writes: > David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your > huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck. In spite of the respectively English and Latin prefixes having the same formal meaning, the meaning of the resulting composites

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David: I don't know what to say. I am very grateful to you for your huge, unvaluable work and I wish you luck. Will you be available for punctual, emergency calls for help? 2016-11-17 18:50 GMT+01:00 Graham King : > David, > I'll add to the thread my deep thanks for

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David, I'll add to the thread my deep thanks for your skill, insight, hard work, helpfulness, articulacy, and (yes, really) diplomacy. May your new employer prove as congenial and rewarding as they are evidently discerning. best regards -- Graham On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 18:09 +0100, David Kastrup

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Hi David I can only echo the good wishes and thanks that others have already expressed.  Lilypond is a great program - the more I use it the more I can see the potential if I can ever get my head around the finer points. Meanwhile the list provides great support, and you have been a major

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Hi David, Just echoing everyone else's sentiments: your contribution to our lives and work through your work on LilyPond is incalculable. As a lurker of course I don't really understand much of what you do, but it's clear that LilyPond would be far behind where it is now without your development

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On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:09 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Hi folks and team, > > Partly in connection with a drop of my productivity particularly this > year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the > LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to

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David, thank you for all your work and good luck with the new job! Can you share the name of the company and what you will be working on? All the best, Janek 2016-11-09 9:09 GMT-08:00 David Kastrup : > > Hi folks and team, > > while I haven't really occupied an official function

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> On 11/09/2016 12:09 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> >> As my communication style has proven to be a somewhat mixed blessing for >> the purpose of attracting long-term developers, I expect that this may >> help in the long run for finding a different balance of areas LilyPond >> is getting worked

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Dear David, I have nothing to add to what others have written here. But I want to repeat it from my side: Thank you so much for your work on LilyPond! Thank you for new functionality, for cleaner code, for easier input syntax, for leading discussions with insightful contributions and LilyPond

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beginners) --> http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Stepping-down-and-moving-on-tp196394p196457.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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Hi David, Congratulations on your new position! Let me echo everyone in thanking you for all your invaluable work on LilyPond. Needless to say, it is in much better shape today because of your efforts and skills. We will miss you as a full-time contributor (and also your humorous asides

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2016-11-10 11:46 GMT+01:00 Andrew Bernard : > David, > > I wish you all the very best for your future endeavours. I thank you most > sincerely for your immensely significant and important contribution to > making lilypond the exceptional tool for engraving that it is.

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+1 many times over. Thank you for your excellent, creative, and vital work in helping LilyPond become the world’s best and most stable digital music engraver. Best of luck! ~Mike On 10 November 2016 at 13.23.24, Kieren MacMillan (kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca) wrote: Dear David,

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Dear David, Congratulations on the new position! I hope it brings you great personal satisfaction and financial security. Your programming and code-shepherding efforts in the ‘Pond have been nearly miraculous, and the codebase is immeasurably better for you having been on the team. Thank you

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On 09/11/16 17:09, David Kastrup wrote: Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! And thanks, David, for your part in changing the course of my life, for a while at least. It was discovering LilyPond some years ago which reminded me of the compositions I still had around,

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David, I wish you all the very best for your future endeavours. I thank you most sincerely for your immensely significant and important contribution to making lilypond the exceptional tool for engraving that it is. Having tried myself to study the source code and remaining baffled despite decades

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Hi David, Thank you for your hard work et nice helps. My very best wishes for the future. Cheers, Pierre 2016-11-10 8:58 GMT+01:00 Federico Bruni : > Il giorno mer 9 nov 2016 alle 18:09, David Kastrup ha > scritto: > >> Thanks for making me stay in the pond as

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Il giorno mer 9 nov 2016 alle 18:09, David Kastrup ha scritto: Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! Thanks to you David for the great work you made for LilyPond! We'll miss you. Best Federico ___ lilypond-user

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Dear David, thank you so much for all your effort, and all the best for the future! Blessed be, Hraban ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

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2016-11-09 18:09 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup : > > Hi folks and team, > > while I haven't really occupied an official function in LilyPond > development, it's hard to deny that I have effectively functioned as > acting chief architect and vetter (with a rather mottled performance). > >

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David, thank you for your fantastic work. I'm happy to hear about your new position - I hope it will be (at least) as interesting as - I think - your work on LilyPond has been. I'll miss your regular and always insight- and helpful (and at times very humorous) contributions to this list!

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David, Thanks for staying in the pond full time as long as you did. You need some courage and perseverance to live from only donations as long as you did. Wishing you all the good in your new job and hope to see you around in the git shortlogs to get rid of some of those nuisances. I’ll cancel

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beneficial. I believe it has. Sincerely, Trevor - Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> To: <lilypond-de...@gnu.org> Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 5:09 PM Subject: Stepping down and moving on Hi folks and t

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Cc: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Stepping down and moving on Hi folks and team, while I haven't really occupied an official function in LilyPond development, it's hard to deny that I have effectively functioned as acting chief architect and vetter (with a rather mottled performance). Partly

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Hi David, all the best for your new job and a million thanks for all the work you dedicated to LilyPond! I hope, we are not lost totally for LilyPond and its community! Best Jan-Peter Am 09.11.2016 um 18:09 schrieb David Kastrup: Hi folks and team, while I haven't really occupied an

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Dear David, my sincere thanks for your past and ongoing work and dedication for Lilypond (and other FOSS, by the way). We are well aware that our donations could not sustain you in the long run. As always in such situations, it's a pity for the community to hear that an important member of

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Hi David, wow! Congratulations on the new job, and on having made that decision! Thanks a million for all the work and dedication you put into LilyPond and into the community. It was extremely valuable. All the best for your way ahead, cordially Simon On 09.11.2016 18:09, David Kastrup

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David, On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:09 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > I think it would be grossly insufficient to just say "thank you" for what you've done, but thank you. Your expertise has enabled and improved a great many

Stepping down and moving on

Hi folks and team, while I haven't really occupied an official function in LilyPond development, it's hard to deny that I have effectively functioned as acting chief architect and vetter (with a rather mottled performance). Partly in connection with a drop of my productivity particularly this