Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:41:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Gold stars for a cygwin contributor In-Reply-To: <20040514054914.GA21686@coe.bosbc.com> Message-ID: References: <20040514054914 DOT GA21686 AT coe DOT bosbc DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I was just reviewing the gold star page and noticed that it's been > almost a year since I pubicly acknowledged a contribution that Pierre > Humblet has made to cygwin. > > We can't have that. > > Pierre has made changes to every part of cygwin. He's even made > contributions to the signal code -- both the old and the new. Few people > would understand how amazing that is. > > We haven't had a release in a long time that didn't have some sort of > insightful fix from him. > > This next release will have some path handling speedups courtesy of > Pierre and Corinna. > > And, he even supports what he changes... > > If Corinna and I are both hit by a bus, you know that cygwin development > will continue, thanks to Pierre. > > Anyway, I'd just like to acknowledge his contributions and ask that he > get five gold stars for his consistenty high quality contributions over > the last three years. > > cgf Done. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/