Hi Jeff - Hi Ben - And To ALL OpenAFS Guardians, Developers and Contributors -
Yes, Thank you ALL for your hard work and dedication towards OpenAFS 1.8.0 and all previous versions of OpenAFS as well, and future versions of OpenAFS too !! Ben, thank you for all of your contributions to the OpenAFS Community in the many roles that you play, truly amazing !! Thanks for all of your help Todd DeSantis From: Jeffrey Altman <jalt...@auristor.com> To: openafs-info@openafs.org Date: 12/14/2016 01:22 AM Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.8.0 alpha 1 available Sent by: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org On 12/13/2016 11:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > The OpenAFS Guardians are happy to announce the availability of the first > pre-release candidate of OpenAFS 1.8.0. > > A large number of bugfixes and new features are included, and there are also > behavior and functional changes that may require administrator action as > part of the upgrade; please consult the release notes for details. > > Please assist the guardians ... New stable release series of OpenAFS are few and far between; averaging more than five years between major release. This alpha release is a major milestone. A point at which I believe it is valuable to acknowledge those who have contributed and the scope of their contributions. The changes contributed towards 1.8 since the initial 1.6.x branch are summarized as follows: 4283 files changed, 325205 insertions(+), 311590 deletions(-) in 4953 commits authored by the following individuals: 1334 Jeffrey Altman 913 Simon Wilkinson 715 Andrew Deason 320 Michael Meffie 292 Daria Phoebe Brashear 289 Benjamin Kaduk 233 Marc Dionne 88 Chas Williams 83 Garrett Wollman 53 Mark Vitale 49 Peter Scott 43 Anders Kaseorg 41 Rod Widdowson 40 Heimdal Developers 38 Russ Allbery 33 Antoine Verheijen 31 Christof Hanke 28 Stephan Wiesand 25 Ken Dreyer 23 Chaskiel Grundman 20 Jonathan A. Kollasch 16 Perry Ruiter 15 Hartmut Reuter 15 Jeffrey Hutzelman 14 Marcio Barbosa 13 Nathaniel Wesley Filardo 12 Jason Edgecombe 12 Matt Benjamin 11 Jeff Blaine 11 Nickolai Zeldovich 10 Sami Kerola 8 Hans-Werner Paulsen 8 Tom Keiser 7 Arne Wiebalck 7 Phillip Moore 6 Jonathan Billings 6 Michael Laß 6 Steve Simmons 5 Dave Botsch 5 Rainer Toebbicke 5 Stefan Kueng 4 Chaz Chandler 4 Ken Hornstein 3 Asanka C. Herath 3 Edward Z. Yang 2 Andy Cobaugh 2 Christer Grafström 2 Dan van der Ster 2 GCO Public CellServDB 2 Geoffrey Thomas 2 Jacob Thebault-Spieker 2 Marcus Watts 2 Thorsten Alteholz 1 Adam Megacz 1 Alejandro R. Sedeño 1 Brandon S Allbery 1 Brian Torbich 1 Charles Hannum 1 Chris Orsi 1 Felix Frank 1 Georg Sluyterman 1 Gergely Risko 1 Jeff Layton 1 Jens Wegener 1 Joe Gorse 1 Jonathon Weiss 1 Karl Ramm 1 Lukas Volf 1 Magnus Ahltorp 1 Matt K. Light 1 Matt Smith 1 Nathan Dobson 1 Niklas Jonsson 1 Paul Smeddle 1 Rainer Strunz 1 Ryan C. Underwood 1 Terry Long 1 Thomas L. Kula 1 Tim Creech 1 Toby Burress 1 Todd Lewis 1 Troy Benjegerdes 1 Vaibhav Kamra 1 Vincent Archer 1 Will Maier 1 Yadav Yadavendra It is very important to acknowledge the many roles that Ben Kaduk is serving for the OpenAFS community including Guardian, 1.8 Release Manager, and Security Officer. The 1.8 alpha release would not have occurred without his substantial and uncompensated efforts. Ben is neither employed by a company that uses AFS nor does the OpenAFS Foundation nor anyone else pay Ben for his time and expertise. I don't know what Ben wants for Christmas but I would encourage all who value OpenAFS to write letters to the North Pole to ensure that Ben is not mistakenly placed on the naughty list. Ben has given the OpenAFS community an early present. Jeffrey Altman P.S. - Happy Holidays from the AuriStor team Daria Phoebe Brashear Marc Dionne Simon Wilkinson Peter Scott Rod Widdowson and myself [attachment "jaltman.vcf" deleted by Todd DeSantis/Pittsburgh/IBM]
