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Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:52:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*
- References: <20081112161743.GA21203@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a
>long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution.
>
>He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break
>the Cygwin distribution. His new packages are laid out in a more
>sensical fashion and attempt to rigorously provide a seamless upgrade
>experience. It was impressive to see how hard he worked to make things
>work.
>
>In addition to that, I know that he knows full well that there will be
>lots of email from lots of users who used the old versions and now are
>confused by the modern installation. There will undoubtedly be bugs and
>there will undoubtedly be repeated reporting of the bugs to the cygwin
>lists. I know that he will be noting all of the problems and rectifying
>them where he can. I've seen him do this with the already impressive
>list of packages that he maintains and I'm confident that he will bring
>this level of committment to the new Xorg release.
>
>I really want to commend Yaakov for what he has done here. It is a
>relief to have the X packaging sorted out and to have active maintainers
>in the cygwin-xfree mailing list. We've been without active participation
>in this project for many years.
>
>(Although if history replays itself Yaakov will soon get a job offer from
>a X-on-Windows company)
>
>Yaakov deserves 10 gold stars for what he has done here but I don't
>think that's enough to thank him for his work. If you agree with me you
>might consider going to http://cygwin.com/donations.html and donating
>something to Yaakov in appreciation of all of his hard work both with
>Cygwin/X and for the cygwinports project*. I did that last week in
>anticipation of Xorg release. I hope you will consider doing something
>similar.
While I was writing the above I really wanted to also include an
additional big thanks to Jon Turney for contributing his technical
know-how to finally getting the Xorg server issues worked out. But I
forgot.
Going forward, Jon and Yaakov are going to be tag-teaming the
maintenance of Cygwin/X. So thank you Jon and apologies for not
mentioning you in my original email.
cgf
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