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Cygwin: FAQ 1.6: Update "Who's behind the project?" 

winsup/doc/faq-what.xml: remove Red Hat, Net, Win32 references and clean up
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@ -124,29 +124,28 @@ questions, all of these people will appreciate it if you use the cygwin
mailing lists rather than sending personal email.)</emphasis> mailing lists rather than sending personal email.)</emphasis>
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Corinna Vinschen is the current project lead. Corinna is a senior Red Hat Corinna Vinschen is the current project lead,
engineer. Corinna is responsible for the Cygwin library and maintains a couple responsible for the Cygwin library and a lot more.
of packages, for instance OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and a lot more.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Yaakov Selkowitz is another Red Hat engineer working on the Cygwin project. Yaakov Selkowitz is the guy behind the current build and packaging system
He's the guy behind the current build and packaging system and maintains by and maintained by far the most packages in the Cygwin distribution.
far the most packages in the Cygwin distribution.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
Jon Turney is developer and maintainer of the Cygwin X server and a couple Jon Turney is maintainer of the Cygwin X server and related packages.
of related packages.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
The packages in the Net release are maintained by a large group of people; The packages are maintained by a large group of
a complete list can be found <ulink url='https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint'>volunteers</ulink>.
<ulink url='https://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint'>here</ulink>.
</para> </para>
<para>Please note that all of us working on Cygwin try to be as responsive as <para>
possible and deal with patches and questions as we get them, but realistically Please note that all of us volunteering on Cygwin try to be as responsive as
we don't have time to answer all of the email that is sent to the main mailing possible and deal with patches and questions as we get them, but
list. Making Net releases of the Win32 tools and helping people on the Net out realistically we don't have time to answer all of the email that is sent to
is not our primary job function, so some email will have to go unanswered. the main mailing list.
Making releases of the tools and packages is an activity in our spare time,
helping people out is not our primary focus, so some email will have to go
unanswered.
</para> </para>
<para>Many thanks to everyone using the tools for their many contributions in <para>Many thanks to everyone using the tools for their many contributions in
the form of advice, bug reports, and code fixes. Keep them coming! the form of advice, bug reports, and code fixes. Keep them coming!