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Joshua Daniel Franklin | 3 Dec 2006 07:20
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signing off, mostly

Cygwin Community,

It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin
documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement
volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when
I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even
have the build tools installed, and that the "FAQ alert" I was
going to respond to is nearly two months old:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00587.html

The good news is that I believe I got cygwin-doc in a very
stable state, so a lot of it is just a matter of building the docs
from CVS, copying the files into a tarball, and releasing.

The bad news is the total lack of movement on the docs in
probably the past 16 months or so (i.e., since my daughter
was born).

I think this is a great opportunity for someone with a lot of
ideas for updated docs. I'd be happy to answer any
questions about the current setup of the Cygwin
documentation.
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Corinna Vinschen | 4 Dec 2006 10:01
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Re: signing off, mostly

Hi Joshua,

On Dec  2 22:20, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> Cygwin Community,
> 
> It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin
> documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement
> volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when
> I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even
> have the build tools installed, and that the "FAQ alert" I was
> going to respond to is nearly two months old:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00587.html
> 
> The good news is that I believe I got cygwin-doc in a very
> stable state, so a lot of it is just a matter of building the docs
> from CVS, copying the files into a tarball, and releasing.

thanks for your commitment in the last couple of years, it's been
highly appreciated.

I had two gold stars for you in my pocket, but now that I'm trying
to give them to you I can't find them... Igor?  Do you have two
gold stars in stock for Joshua?

However, since you're apparently not using Cygwin anymore, what about
the pinfo package?  Will you further maintain it?

Corinna

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Christopher Faylor | 5 Dec 2006 03:08
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:01:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi Joshua,
>
>On Dec  2 22:20, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> Cygwin Community,
>> 
>> It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin
>> documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement
>> volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when
>> I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even
>> have the build tools installed, and that the "FAQ alert" I was
>> going to respond to is nearly two months old:
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00587.html
>> 
>> The good news is that I believe I got cygwin-doc in a very
>> stable state, so a lot of it is just a matter of building the docs
>> from CVS, copying the files into a tarball, and releasing.
>
>thanks for your commitment in the last couple of years, it's been
>highly appreciated.

Big ditto from me.  I'm very sad that you are leaving Joshua.  It's been
a real pleasure working with you.

>I had two gold stars for you in my pocket, but now that I'm trying
>to give them to you I can't find them... Igor?  Do you have two
>gold stars in stock for Joshua?

Igor, I just happened to bump into Corinna recently, and, coincidentally
enough, I am now in possession of two gold stars (and a small number of
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Joshua Daniel Franklin | 5 Dec 2006 23:01
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On 12/4/06, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:01:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >thanks for your commitment in the last couple of years, it's been
> >highly appreciated.
>
> Big ditto from me.  I'm very sad that you are leaving Joshua.  It's been
> a real pleasure working with you.

Thanks so much everyone, I really appreciate your kind words.
I have very much enjoyed the experience of working on Cygwin
and wish that I had the time and resources to continue. As I
mentioned I've never been short of ideas for more documentation.
Cygwin is a great project to work on and it's been fun.
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Igor Peshansky | 5 Dec 2006 04:10
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:01:51AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi Joshua,
> >
> >On Dec  2 22:20, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> >> Cygwin Community,
> >>
> >> It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin
> >> documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement
> >> volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when
> >> I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even
> >> have the build tools installed, and that the "FAQ alert" I was
> >> going to respond to is nearly two months old:
> >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00587.html
> >>
> >> The good news is that I believe I got cygwin-doc in a very
> >> stable state, so a lot of it is just a matter of building the docs
> >> from CVS, copying the files into a tarball, and releasing.
> >
> >thanks for your commitment in the last couple of years, it's been
> >highly appreciated.
>
> Big ditto from me.  I'm very sad that you are leaving Joshua.  It's been
> a real pleasure working with you.
>
> >I had two gold stars for you in my pocket, but now that I'm trying
> >to give them to you I can't find them... Igor?  Do you have two
> >gold stars in stock for Joshua?
>
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Joshua Daniel Franklin | 4 Dec 2006 18:54
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Re: signing off, mostly

On 12/4/06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I had two gold stars for you in my pocket, but now that I'm trying
> to give them to you I can't find them... Igor?  Do you have two
> gold stars in stock for Joshua?

Thanks!

> However, since you're apparently not using Cygwin anymore, what about
> the pinfo package?  Will you further maintain it?

I actually forgot about it, thanks for the reminder. Unfortunately
pinfo has been dead upstream for a long time, but I just did a search
and it looks like the debian maintainer has adopted it recently:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pinfo-announce/2006/000000.html

So, pinfo is also up for adoption and it would be great for the new
parent to package that new release candidate. I didn't add any
Cygwin-specific patches, but pinfo has some known bugs so I'm
sure the upsteam maintainer would thoughfully consider patches.
For example, this one has been noticed before:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pinfo-devel/2006q2/000412.html
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Igor Peshansky | 4 Dec 2006 16:01
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> On Dec  2 22:20, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > Cygwin Community,
> >
> > It's been a fun few years that I've been maintaining the Cygwin
> > documentation, but I think it's come time to ask for replacement
> > volunteers. I now rarely use Windows and just realized when
> > I got a few minutes on my wife's laptop that it doesn't even
> > have the build tools installed, and that the "FAQ alert" I was
> > going to respond to is nearly two months old:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00587.html
> >
> > The good news is that I believe I got cygwin-doc in a very
> > stable state, so a lot of it is just a matter of building the docs
> > from CVS, copying the files into a tarball, and releasing.
>
> thanks for your commitment in the last couple of years, it's been
> highly appreciated.
>
> I had two gold stars for you in my pocket, but now that I'm trying
> to give them to you I can't find them... Igor?

Would those be the two stars you've sent me to save for a special
occasion? ;-)

> Do you have two gold stars in stock for Joshua?
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