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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
