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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Danny Smith sent email to the MinGW lists yesterday indicating that he
> was stepping down as a maintainer.  This is very sad news.  Danny was
> the key person responsible for most of the improvements made to gcc and
> binutils for windows in the last couple of years.  His contributions
> will be sorely missed.  This is a real blow for Windows versions of gcc
> and binutils on both MinGW and Cygwin.

Are you sure that Danny is stepping down as both an
         http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
maintainer AND as an
         http://gcc.gnu.org/
maintainer for win32-related platforms?  Danny's original message, while 
ambiguous and worrisome, admits a number of interpretations.  To me, it 
seemed mostly concerned with administrivia related to the *sourceforge* 
mingw project itself:

"I tred to remove myself from the mingw developer/admin group...[and 
could not]...Please remove my admin and developer status"

Everyone seems to be assuming "the worst" -- and perhaps they are 
correct and it IS time to panic:

(Doug Schaefer is considering switching his entire Wascana [Eclipse for 
Windows] project from mingw to MSVC: 
http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com/2007/08/need-for-diversity.html)

...but then again, maybe not. Danny has not yet responded to this question:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/23691
"I am in a little shock. Do you mean by this that you leave the 
developing of gcc for mingw?"

Danny has the ability to unilaterally change gcc/MAINTAINERS yet he's 
still listed:

windows, cygwin, mingw  Danny Smith    <address>

Further, he has made no similar "bye" announcement to the gcc lists.

Regardless, I join with everyone else in thanking Danny for his work to 
date and wishing him luck in the future.

--
Chuck

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