I was looking at the original Markdown syntax specification, and became curious as to the last time Gruber posted anything to this discusion list. According to some searches of the archives using some Google tricks, the last post I could find from him was in 2009. Just thought that was interesting. F- -- Fletcher T. Penney fletcher at fletcherpenney.net
* Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at fletcherpenney.net> [2011-05-14 16:50]:> I was looking at the original Markdown syntax specification, > and became curious as to the last time Gruber posted anything > to this discusion list. According to some searches of the > archives using some Google tricks, the last post I could find > from him was in 2009. > > Just thought that was interesting.An anatomy of a loss of interest: 2004 279 2005 153 2006 78 2007 25 (21 in the first half of the year) 2008 6 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March) 2009 4 (in row in late Feb) 2010 0 2011 0 It?s not uncommon. Most of my own projects look like this? I just wish we?d get one last release out of him that takes the beta label off the last version and fixes the couple of small things Gruber himself already agreed years ago should be changed in certain ways. (Eg. not triggering emphasis on word-internal underscores.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
Le 2011-05-14 ? 15:55, Aristotle Pagaltzis a ?crit :> * Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at fletcherpenney.net> [2011-05-14 16:50]: >> I was looking at the original Markdown syntax specification, >> and became curious as to the last time Gruber posted anything >> to this discusion list. According to some searches of the >> archives using some Google tricks, the last post I could find >> from him was in 2009. >> >> Just thought that was interesting. > > An anatomy of a loss of interest: > > 2004 279 > 2005 153 > 2006 78 > 2007 25 (21 in the first half of the year) > 2008 6 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March) > 2009 4 (in row in late Feb) > 2010 0 > 2011 0 > > It?s not uncommon. Most of my own projects look like this? > > I just wish we?d get one last release out of him that takes the > beta label off the last version and fixes the couple of small > things Gruber himself already agreed years ago should be changed > in certain ways. (Eg. not triggering emphasis on word-internal > underscores.)You should add a new column for the total number of posts. -- Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://michelf.com/
On May 14, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:> An anatomy of a loss of interest: > > 2004 279 > 2005 153 > 2006 78 > 2007 25 (21 in the first half of the year) > 2008 6 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March) > 2009 4 (in row in late Feb) > 2010 0 > 2011 0Hey! You didn?t use the Official Markdown Table Syntax for this?! ;) -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/>
* Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> [2011-05-14 23:40]:> Le 2011-05-14 ? 15:55, Aristotle Pagaltzis a ?crit : >> An anatomy of a loss of interest: >> >> 2004 279 >> 2005 153 >> 2006 78 >> 2007 25 (21 in the first half of the year) >> 2008 6 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March) >> 2009 4 (in row in late Feb) >> 2010 0 >> 2011 0 >> >> It?s not uncommon. Most of my own projects look like this? >> >> I just wish we?d get one last release out of him that takes >> the beta label off the last version and fixes the couple of >> small things Gruber himself already agreed years ago should be >> changed in certain ways. (Eg. not triggering emphasis on >> word-internal underscores.) > > You should add a new column for the total number of posts.2004 279 / 938 2005 153 / 856 2006 78 / 542 2007 25 / 479 (21 in the first half of the year) 2008 6 / 508 (2 in Feb; 4 in a row in mid-March) 2009 4 / 235 (in row in late Feb) 2010 0 / 203 2011 0 / 141 Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>