Thanks, guys, for the comments.

Mario, I've enjoyed working back and forth on pull requests
with you!

Miham, it's been great to have someone to lean on wrt
documentation; when you get people working that have an
interesting/skill in one area it makes a stronger team. One
of the things (I think I've mentioned) about learning Python
that was so helpful to me was the tutor list where really
helpful people answered questions and quickly got me over
learning "bumps'. Because you answered so many questions
about documentation, it raised my awareness of how to do
things and that raises the level of code and documentation
quality.

Alan, thanks for your comments and work with the GA module.
(I still don't know how to use it, but trying to get the
doctests working gave me an intro. It's one of those areas
where having good docstrings can help someone like me get an
interest in a new area.)

Ronan, perhaps I can still find some time to help with
review. In one of my pull requests as I tried to respond to
one of your suggestions I said that " your suggestions
usually bear healthy but sometimes bitter fruit". I've truly
grown thankful for the contributions you make and the time
you take to point out errors in one's ways. I'm really a
neophyte when it comes to OO programming and having someone
with broader understanding to act as ballast is a boon to
the project.

Aaron, thanks for your kind words. You've got a lot on your
plate with school and this project. I've appreciated your ability
to pull facts and references together to help educate us about
what we're working on. Although I don't check into the chat
area very often these days, you seemed to be there often
when I needed help on some aspect of the project and were
willing to field questions.

Ondrej, I thought I was making an exit about a year ago and
you encouraged me to stay on. The good news is that a lot
more got done; the bad news is there is still that
never-ending garden with rocks in it! :-) I think in a
project like this one must realize that it's mostly not a
sprint. It's a "work in progresss" like Mt Rushmore. And
when there are a batch of GSoC or Code-In people working on
things, change happens quickly. And when there isn't...just
relax, things will go slower. I have a hard time going
slower--a fellow grad student from Mexico said I was like a
"dog on a bone!". But I'd like to think that God has been
able to teach this old dog a few things through work on this
project, though.

And I see you know how to lie with numbers! :-) Nobody that
has done the heavy lifting should think that I am to
enamored by my ability to cross t's and dot i's :-) And how
could those numbers be what they are if it weren't for a lot
of help from the community. The branches on the top of the
tree grow great best when the roots and trunk are well.

It's been fun working from this branch!

Best regards,
 Chris

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