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Wed Jun 13 13:45:44 2001 Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
* who.texinfo: Remove email addresses. Modernize.
Tue May 29 21:30:07 2001 Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> Tue May 29 21:30:07 2001 Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
* Makefile.in: Tweak to attempt to accomodate older texi2html. * Makefile.in: Tweak to attempt to accomodate older texi2html.

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@chapter Who's behind the project? @chapter Who's behind the project?
@strong{(Please note: This section has not yet been updated for the latest @strong{(Please note that if you have cygwin-specific questions, all of these
net release.)} people will appreciate it if you use the cygwin mailing lists rather than
sending personal email.)}
Chris Faylor (cgf@@cygnus.com) is behind many of the recent Chris Faylor is behind many of the recent changes in Cygwin. Prior to
changes in Cygwin. Prior to joining Cygnus, he contributed significant joining Cygnus, he contributed significant fixes to the process control
fixes to the process control and environ code, reworked the strace and environ code, reworked the strace mechanism, and rewrote the
mechanism, and rewrote the signal-related code from scratch as a Net signal-related code from scratch as a Net contributor. In addition to
contributor. In addition to continuing to make technical contributions, continuing to make technical contributions, Chris is also currently the
Chris is also currently the group's manager. group's manager.
Geoffrey Noer (noer@@cygnus.com) took over the Cygwin project from its' Corinna Vinschen has contributed several useful fixes to the path
initial author Steve Chamberlain in mid-1996. As maintainer, he handling code, console support, improved security handling, and raw
produced Net releases beta 16 through 20; made the development device support. Corinna is currently employed by Red Hat as a
snapshots; worked with Net contributors to fix bugs; made many various GDB/Cygwin engineer.
code improvements himself; wrote a paper on Cygwin for the
1998 Usenix NT Symposium; authored the project WWW pages, FAQ, README;
etc.
DJ Delorie (dj@@cygnus.com) has done important work in profiling Cygwin, DJ Delorie has done important work in profiling Cygwin,
worked on the Dejagnu automated testing framework, merged the dlltool worked on the Dejagnu automated testing framework, merged the dlltool
functionality into ld, wrote a good deal of the Cygwin Users' Guide, functionality into ld, wrote a good deal of the Cygwin Users' Guide,
authored the cygcheck utility, and made automated snapshots available authored the cygcheck utility, and made automated snapshots available
from our project WWW page. from our project WWW page. DJ is currently employed by Red Hat as
a GCC engineer.
Steve Chamberlain (sac@@transmeta.com) designed and implemented Egor Duda has contributed many useful fixes. He is responsible for
Cygwin's ability to start a debugger on detection of a fatal error
as well as produce core dumps.
Robert Collins has contributed many improvements to thread handling
as well as generic fixes to cygwin itself.
Kazuhiro Fujieda has contributed many bug fixes and bug reports.
Geoffrey Noer took over the Cygwin project from its initial author Steve
Chamberlain in mid-1996. As maintainer, he produced Net releases beta
16 through 20; made the development snapshots; worked with Net
contributors to fix bugs; made many various code improvements himself;
wrote a paper on Cygwin for the 1998 Usenix NT Symposium; authored the
project WWW pages, FAQ, README; etc. Geoffrey is not currently employed
by Red Hat.
Steve Chamberlain designed and implemented
Cygwin in 1995-1996 while working for Cygnus. He worked with the Net Cygwin in 1995-1996 while working for Cygnus. He worked with the Net
to improve the technology, ported/integrated many of the user tools to improve the technology, ported/integrated many of the user tools
for the first time to Cygwin, and produced all of the releases up to for the first time to Cygwin, and produced all of the releases up to
beta 14. beta 14. Steve is not currently employed by Red Hat.
Marco Fuykschot (marco@@ddi.nl) and Peter Boncz (boncz@@ddi.nl) of Marco Fuykschot and Peter Boncz of Data Distilleries contributed nearly
Data Distilleries contributed nearly all of the changes required to all of the changes required to make Cygwin thread-safe. They also
make Cygwin thread-safe. They also provided the pthreads interface. provided the pthreads interface.
Sergey Okhapkin (sos@@prospect.com.ru) has been an invaluable Net Sergey Okhapkin has been an invaluable Net contributor. He implemented
contributor. He implemented the tty/pty support, has played a the tty/pty support, has played a significant role in revamping signal
significant role in revamping signal and exception handling, and has and exception handling, and has made countless contributions throughout
made countless contributions throughout the library. He also provided the library. He also provided binaries of the development snapshots to
binaries of the development snapshots to the Net after the beta 19 the Net after the beta 19 release.
release.
Mumit Khan (khan@@xraylith.wisc.edu) has been most helpful on the EGCS Mumit Khan (has been most helpful on the EGCS end of things, providing
end of things, providing quite a large number of stabilizing patches to quite a large number of stabilizing patches to the compiler tools for
the compiler tools for the B20 release. the B20 release.
Corinna Vinschen <corinna@@vinschen.de> has contributed several Philippe Giacinti contributed the implementation of dlopen, dlclose,
useful fixes to the path handling code, console support, improved security dlsym, dlfork, and dlerror in Cygwin.
handling, and raw device support.
Philippe Giacinti (giac@@dalim.de) contributed the implementation of Ian Lance Taylor did a much-needed rework of the path handling code for
dlopen, dlclose, dlsym, dlfork, and dlerror in Cygwin. beta 18, and has made many assorted fixes throughout the code. Jeremy
Allison made significant contributions in the area of file handling and
Many other people at Cygnus have made important contributions to Cygwin. process control, and rewrote select from scratch. Doug Evans rewrote
Tobin Brockett wrote the InstallShield-based installer for the beta 19 the path-handling code in beta 16, among other things. Kim Knuttila and
and 20 releases. Ian Lance Taylor did a much-needed rework of the path Michael Meissner put in many long hours working on the now-defunct
handling code for beta 18, and has made many assorted fixes throughout PowerPC port. Jason Molenda and Mark Eichin have also made important
the code. Jeremy Allison made significant contributions in the area of contributions.
file handling and process control, and rewrote select from scratch.
Doug Evans rewrote the path-handling code in beta 16, among other
things. Kim Knuttila and Michael Meissner put in many long hours
working on the now-defunct PowerPC port. Jason Molenda and Mark Eichin
have also made important contributions.
Please note that those of us here at Cygnus that work on Cygwin try to Please note that those of us here at Cygnus that work on Cygwin try to
be as responsive as possible and deal with patches and questions as we be as responsive as possible and deal with patches and questions as we