The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz
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. cgf *http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz
Christopher Faylor wrote: Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. Very well done to Yaakov! -- MarkR PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/publickey Key fingerprint: 2F64 8EC1 771C 3895 A230 3BE1 2501 A882 C9C5 C162 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*
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://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
