On Tue, Mar 27, at 04:37 Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Hi all, > > I will be performing server upgrades tomorrow (Wed Mar 28)
> Bruce will assist as well with the testing so that we can make quick work of > it. [...] Hi Gerard and Bruce, Many thanks once more for your work and your dedication to the project, after so many years (you always (both) took care of these little details). And since Gerard, you was also the initializator :) and Bruce our undisputed leader author (together with Matthew and Randy) I think that the Linux world owes you a lot, since our document had always been a reference. But please, allow me to remember (and of top of my head and sortly as I can) a couple of historical moments (from those I lived) and give some proper credits. I think first that, we owe a lot to Ryan and to Greg, who both at some point in time, solved many of the low level toolchain issues and helped us to stabilize the instructions. But thanks should also goes to Alexander (with its UTF8 branch) and to Jeremy (for his alphabetical branch) and both for the LFS CD. Also to our xsl magician, Manuel (who dissapeared suddenly and without ever learn something about him (does anybody know?)). To Pierre Labastie: (and about Jhalfs) It was IIRC Jeremy, who prototyped, but it was Manuel who wrote most of Jhalfs. (as a historical moment it was also Manuel responsible for my first contribution to an open source project (the code that calculates SBU's and the final formated output)). Also thanks should go to Archaic and later to Robert for HLFS who were the only ones that I know of, that contributed to the hardening issues. But also we should remember the historical CLFS split (who personally I never show it like this and it wasn't) and should thank them for provided those quite complex methods to build CLFS (I think the main contributors besides Jim and Ryan, were Joe and Chris (from those I knew)). In any case they never stopped (with the one way or another to contribute back to LFS) and they always considered as a part of the crew. Evolution is hard and it cause hard feelings sometimes, however these should be now thing of the past. But our best credits should go to two of us, who still (after (again) so many years) contribute to the Books. Thanks DJ and Ken. Also thanks to the uncountable contributors to the books or to our support and our development lists (like Bryan and Simon) but especially to our Sir Richard! (but there so many to name them individually, so forgive this old :) man brain) But the last one is reserved for Dan Nicholson, where I still believe that we could use :) his passion much wiser. The exact goes for Alex of course. (cc them) Dedicated to the memory of Andy who left early. To the others: It is strictly forbidden to die. Happy Eastern Time to Everybody. On Tue, Jan 30, 2018, at 11:01 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ag, [...] > You are welcome back to the LFS community whenever you have the time. > > -- Bruce Hi Bruce and many thanks for that trust (but i never actually left from LFS as these are my roots (but yes (okey) I went way, but those days i'm feeling like to go back to my roots)) so, Its about time. Could you activate my editor account? ag at linuxfromscratch.org I'm (almost) totally sure that I won't find the time to contribute to the Books again (though nobody can ever be sure) as an editor, but I'm planning to do some work in this domain (from now and on) and I would like to have some flexibility especially in our tracker and maybe contriute with some code. I also don't build LFS since 2010, as I do not have the time resources (i'm using voidlinux for many years now). (please write me in private for the details (be aware that I might be not answer imediatelly as I would like to, becuase of some difficulties, but which, and for first time in my life, might soon belong to the past) > Thanks, > Gerard Beekmans Best, Αγαθοκλής To Randy (if he still reads that list (i can not find his email account to cc him)): Do you still have this barn? :) How about the helicopter? :) (seriously big guy, write me when you'll find the time) p.s., In fact (now that i'm thinking) i might be able to contribute to the books (from time to time) if it were under git control. -- agathoklisx at github -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
