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 and enjoyable, and a satisfying match to your talents! > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. ... > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in > the foreseeable future. As the end of the year is approaching I'm planning to do some tidying of the SF Issues DB. Should I return all the unfinished issues signed out to you in a state of "needs work" to unassigned? Or are there some you wish to retain? > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. That would be most welcome, even if we end up with a couple of unfixed regressions. There are so many wonderful new features in 2.19 (most of them crafted by you!) we really should now get them into a stable release. Trevor ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
Le 09/11/2016 à 18:09, David Kastrup a écrit : 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). 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. First of all, many thanks for all you did in and for LilyPond. And I wish you all the best in you new position. Mach's gut! -- Jean-Charles ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 contributor to the on-list help as well as to the project itself. So - thanks again, and good luck in your new post. David On Wed, 2016-11-09 at 18:09 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > 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 > year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the > LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to > disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. > > 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. > > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and > forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. > > 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 on. > > During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that > even > without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus > the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we > have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing > people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out > how > to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's > infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. > > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time > remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the > current comparative amount of instability with regard to font > handling, > and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support > Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of > "stable" > and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. > > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them > in > the foreseeable future. > > Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is > over. > I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep > working > on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in > spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on > LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first > paycheck. > > So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might > still > have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a > reasonable > chance at returning a tangible value for them. > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 and leadership. I am sorry that I was never in a position to help out financially, so I am happy to hear about your new job. I wish you all the best! Kevin ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. David - Words fail me. LilyPond owes you so much. I wish you the best in your new job. Don't be a stranger, Ralph -- Ralph Palmer Brattleboro, VT USA palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 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 > year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the > LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. > > 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. > > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. > > 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 on. > > During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even > without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus > the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we > have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing > people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how > to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's > infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. > > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the > current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, > and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support > Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" > and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. > > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in > the foreseeable future. > > Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. > I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working > on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in > spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on > LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. > > So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still > have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable > chance at returning a tangible value for them. > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > > -- > David Kastrup > ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 facts and for the help for so many on this list! I was kind of shocked when I read the mail subject from your address. But I am convinced that it is a good decision for your finances and your future - I feared it would happen earlier. I wish you a good start in your new position. Hopefully, we will see you from time to time on these lists. Cordially, Joram ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
+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, 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 so much for everything you did to make Lilypond better for everyone, users and developers alike. Sincerely, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-u...@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 so much for everything you did to make Lilypond better for everyone, users and developers alike. Sincerely, Kieren. Kieren MacMillan, composer ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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. Having tried > myself to study the source code and remaining baffled despite decades of > software development experience, I am in awe at your ability to comprehend > and extend this complex code base, for the benefit of us all. It will be > difficult if not impossible for anybody to fill your shoes. I extend my > immense gratitude to you for your tireless pursuit of software excellence. > > All the best from Down Under! > > Andrew Bernard ... and all the same from me, Pal ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 of software development experience, I am in awe at your ability to comprehend and extend this complex code base, for the benefit of us all. It will be difficult if not impossible for anybody to fill your shoes. I extend my immense gratitude to you for your tireless pursuit of software excellence. All the best from Down Under! Andrew Bernard On 10 November 2016 at 04:09, David Kastrup wrote: > > 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 > year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the > LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. > > 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. > > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. > > 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 on. > > During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even > without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus > the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we > have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing > people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how > to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's > infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. > > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the > current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, > and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support > Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" > and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. > > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in > the foreseeable future. > > Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. > I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working > on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in > spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on > LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. > > So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still > have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable > chance at returning a tangible value for them. > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > > -- > David Kastrup > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 long as I did! >> > > Thanks to you David for the great work you made for LilyPond! > We'll miss you. > > Best > Federico > > > > ___ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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). > > 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 disastrous. Of > course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in > significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. > > 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. > > This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth > weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some > LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be > able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity > involving me with LilyPond's community. > > 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 on. > > During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even > without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus > the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we > have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing > people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how > to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's > infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. > > I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining > to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the > current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, > and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support > Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" > and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. > > There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. > I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in > the foreseeable future. > > Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. > I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working > on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in > spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on > LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. > > So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still > have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable > chance at returning a tangible value for them. > > Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! > > -- > David Kastrup Hi David, to say "thanks a lot for all your fabulous work" is forsooth not enough, but I'm not able to express it it in better words. With deepest respect, Harm ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
Hi David The first thing to do is to sincerely thank you for your extreme dedication, skill and energy in developing our favourite program over recent years. Even that seems a weak effort at expressing the gratitude and admiration I feel. We owe you a great deal. But eventually we all have to move on. It goes without saying, although I shall say it, that whatever continuing involvement you feel able to provide will continue to be widely welcomed by all users and developers. Please don't leave us entirely! Finally, I do hope your involvement with our community has been mutually beneficial. I believe it has. Sincerely, Trevor - Original Message - From: "David Kastrup" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 5:09 PM 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 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 disastrous. Of course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. 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. This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity involving me with LilyPond's community. 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 on. During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in the foreseeable future. Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable chance at returning a tangible value for them. Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
RE: Stepping down and moving on
David. Thank you for all of your support - intellectual, material, and philosophical. May your new position provide all the success that you deserve. Mark -Original Message- From: David Kastrup [mailto:d...@gnu.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2016 9:10 AM To: lilypond-devel@gnu.org Cc: lilypond-u...@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 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 disastrous. Of course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. 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. This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity involving me with LilyPond's community. 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 on. During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in the foreseeable future. Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable chance at returning a tangible value for them. Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
RE: Stepping down and moving on
Hi David et al,A loss to the Lilypond project is a gain to your future employer.I wish you the best in your future endeavours. Projects as big and complex like Lilypond need dedicated staff and someone will hopefully fill that space in the future. Cheers,Ralph ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 the dev team has to move on, but I guess we all do understand your reasons and support your decision. Actually, I'm surprised that you managed to tolerate the status quo for so long, and I'm glad that you seem to have found an apt employment. Good luck with the commuting, though... On a personal note: I think you are too pessimistic about your abilities in leading and managing. I've only scratched the varnish of the very surface of Lilypond's development, but I silently followed many conversations. I doubt that any different attitude or communication style would have led to any "more successful" outcome in recruiting or motivating. I've seen many sincere discussions in rough tones, including ones about your opinions and personality, but in the end I can't remember many occasions when other developers did not eventually appreciate the fact that issues were discussed openly. And I've never felt doubts by anyone about your dedication and motivation for the common goal, despite of disagreements in the execution. There is no team working together over such a long time without discussions, disputes and arguments - the art is settling them, and approaching new tasks (and the same people) with an open mind. When I remember the few pictures I saw from the personal developer meetings at your place, I feel that you are way better in social affairs than you might think. And I'll miss your humor on those lists... All the best in your future endeavors! Thanks again, Alexander ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 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 year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to disastrous. Of course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. 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. This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity involving me with LilyPond's community. 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 on. During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in the foreseeable future. Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable chance at returning a tangible value for them. Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 wrote: 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 year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to disastrous. Of course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. 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. This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity involving me with LilyPond's community. 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 on. During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in the foreseeable future. Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable chance at returning a tangible value for them. Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
Re: Stepping down and moving on
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 things that everyone has benefitted from. I wish I had more time to get into the thick of things myself, and perhaps I'll be able to. I hope so. In any case, your contributions have taught me a great deal. And congratulations on the new employment! I hope you find great satisfaction through it! Please don't stay too far away. Best, Abraham Lee ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
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 year, the amount of financial support for my work from members of the LilyPond community went down from overall survivable to disastrous. Of course this is bitter for those of you that did contribute in significant amounts to my subsistence but I have to be moving on. 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. This employment is in another city. I'll be travelling back and forth weekly for the foreseeable future. While I might be working on some LilyPond side projects interesting to me occasionally, I will not be able to do any serious amound of coordination or other activity involving me with LilyPond's community. 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 on. During his tenure as LilyPond leader, Graham has demonstrated that even without a central technical lead there is a lot of potential to focus the resources of people willing to work on and expand LilyPond and we have been continuing to reap the results of his talent for organizing people into useful teams even though I have not really figured out how to fill gaps in the various teams and tools managing LilyPond's infrastructure to offset the "natural" amounts of fluctuation. I'll try seeing through the release of 2.20 in the little time remaining to me both before and after starting my job. My main worry is the current comparative amount of instability with regard to font handling, and my main bad taste is that 2.20.1 will not be able to support Guile 2: there is no way that anything deserving the label of "stable" and including Guile 2 will come about in the rest of my tenure. There are also several half-completed features that are a nuisance. I do not expect to be able to to a significant amount of work on them in the foreseeable future. Once consequence, of course, is that my requirement for funding is over. I am greatly thankful to the people who have enabled me to keep working on LilyPond as long as I did, but what remains in my bank account, in spite of being quite less than what I started with when working on LilyPond, is sufficient to tide me over the time to my first paycheck. So I would ask you to cancel any regular bank payments you might still have in place as of December: I don't see that I will have a reasonable chance at returning a tangible value for them. Thanks for making me stay in the pond as long as I did! -- David Kastrup ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
