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Re: Project leadership change
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:07:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:31:31PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>I have to make a sad announce:
>>
>>Harold Hunt, leader of the Cygwin/X project for some years will quit being
>>the project leader because of his new job and family. With Harold quitting
>>I'll take over leadership of the project and will be responsible for making
>>releases, managing the website and documentation and managing the list.
>>
>>I hope I can come up with a similar performance as Harold had shown in the
>>past and want to thank Harold for putting so much time and work into making
>>Cygwin/X a great xserver with features similar to those from commercial ones.
>>
>>Thank you, Harold.
>>
>>After Harold, Kensuke and Takuma can not offer their time anymore we
>>are now short on developers. This means that the external multiwindow
>>windowmanager is not actively developed anymore and I can only continue
>>working on small enhancements and bugfixes.
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>I am also very sad that Harold is stepping down. It's the end of an era.
>
>However, thanks very much Andrew for your increased commitment to the
>project. Harold is leaving things in good hands.
Sigh. I used the name "Andrew" about 27 times yesterday when I was talking
about Alexander. I am sorry Alexander. I've been reading your email for
years now and you'd think I would know better. What can I say? I'm an
idiot.
Sorry.
Anyway the sentiment is the same even if I can't get the names straight...
cgf