(dv "Didier Verna" "didier@xemacs.org")
(eb "Eric Benson" "eb@xemacs.org")
(fabrice "Fabrice Popineau" "fabrice@xemacs.org")
- (golubev "I N Golubev" "golubev@xemacs.org")
+ (golubev "Ilya Golubev" "golubev@xemacs.org")
(gunnar "Gunnar Evermann" "gunnar@xemacs.org")
(hbs "Harlan Sexton" "hbs@xemacs.org")
(hisashi "Hisashi Miyashita" "hisashi@xemacs.org")
(defvar about-current-release-maintainers
;; this list should not necessarily be in sorted order.
- '(turnbull adrian ben hniksic jason martin piper sperber youngs))
+ '(vin turnbull adrian ben martin piper sperber youngs))
(defvar about-other-current-hackers
;; to sort this list or the one below, use:
;; M-x sort-regexp-fields RET [a-z]+ RET \(.*\) RET
- '(aj alastair cgw craig daiki dan dv fabrice golubev gunnar hisashi
- jan jareth jmiller jonathan kazz kirill larsi morioka mta ograf
- olivier oscar pittman tomonori tuck vin wmperry yoshiki))
+ '(aj alastair cgw craig daiki dan dv fabrice golubev gunnar hisashi hniksic
+ jan jareth jmiller jason jonathan kazz kirill larsi morioka mta ograf
+ olivier oscar pittman tomonori tuck wmperry yoshiki))
(defvar about-once-and-future-hackers
'(ajc baw bw chr cthomp darrylo devin dkindred dmoore eb hbs hmuller
(marcpa . "http://www.positron911.com/products/power.htm")
(ograf . "http://www.fga.de/~ograf/")
(pez . "http://cbs.sportsline.com/")
- (piper . "http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/")
+ (piper . "http://www.andypiper.com/")
(rossini . "http://faculty.washington.edu/rossini/")
(stigb . "http://www.tihlde.hist.no/~stigb/")
(vin . "http://www.upa.org/")
:format "%t"
:tag-glyph xemacs-logo)
(widget-insert "\n")
- (let* ((emacs-short-version (format "%d.%d"
+ (let* ((emacs-short-version (format "%d.%d.%d"
emacs-major-version
- emacs-minor-version))
- (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; April 2001"
- emacs-short-version)))
+ emacs-minor-version
+ emacs-patch-level))
+ (emacs-about-version (format "version %s; %s %s"
+ emacs-short-version
+ (cdr (assoc (substring emacs-build-time
+ 4 7)
+ '(("Jan" . "January")
+ ("Feb" . "February")
+ ("Mar" . "March")
+ ("Apr" . "April")
+ ("May" . "May")
+ ("Jun" . "June")
+ ("Jul" . "July")
+ ("Aug" . "August")
+ ("Sep" . "September")
+ ("Oct" . "October")
+ ("Nov" . "November")
+ ("Dec" . "December"))))
+ (substring emacs-build-time -4))))
(widget-insert (about-center emacs-about-version))
(widget-create 'link :help-echo "What's new in XEmacs"
:action 'about-news
(golubev
(widget-insert
"\
-Sorry, no personal information available about me yet.\n"))
+I appreciate power of XEmacs, but elementary editing operations should
+be done by single keystrokes with no modifiers. So would not use
+XEmacs until discovered viper, and now can't live without viper.
+Occasionally dislike something in there or in other free software, and
+try to get it fixed. .plan file contains classic (perhaps reinvented
+independently) formula:
+
+Hacking world for ever
+
+(borrowed from \"Hacking X for Y\" in ")
+ (about-url-link "http://www.jargon.org/"
+ "Jargon File" "www.jargon.org")
+ (widget-insert ").\n"))
(gunnar
(widget-insert
"\
My home page is here:\n")
(about-url-link 'piper nil "Visit andy's home page")
(widget-insert "\n
-Andy has recently rejoined the XEmacs team to help port XEmacs to
-MS Windows operating systems.\n"))
+ Andy has been active in the XEmacs team for a number of years,
+helping port XEmacs to MS Windows operating systems. He is also the
+current MS Windows release manager and maintains the MS Windows
+netinstaller.\n"))
(pittman
(widget-insert
"\
and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
See ")
- (about-url-link 'rossini nil "Visit Anothony's home page")
+ (about-url-link 'rossini nil "Visit Anthony's home page")
(widget-insert ".\n"))
(slb
(widget-insert "\
where he is a professor of economics at the University of Tsukuba.\n"))
(vin
(widget-insert "\
-I own and operate my own consulting firm, EtherSoft. Shhh, don't
-tell anyone, but it's named after an Ultimate team I used to play
-with in Austin, Texas - the Ether Bunnies. I'm getting too old
-to play competitive Ultimate any more, so now I've gotten roped
-into serving on the board of directors of the Ultimate Players
-Association. See ")
- (about-url-link 'vin nil "Visit the UPA homepage")
- (widget-insert ".\n"))
+I'm a software engineer and manager for Teradyne in Boston. I used
+to play a lot of Ultimate - see ")
+ (about-url-link 'vin nil "Visit the Ultimate Players Association homepage")
+ (widget-insert " for more details.
+Nowadays I'm a family man, so I spend a lot of time with my wife,
+Becky, and my son, Noah.\n"))
(vladimir
(widget-insert "\
Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun. He is now writing a book on
(golubev
(widget-insert
"\
-Sorry, no information about my XEmacs contributions yet.\n"))
+Used XEmacs since early 1997. Fixed bugs that annoy me, both in
+XEmacs core and in packages I use, mostly viper. Hoping to get
+coding-cookie package distributed, which is also a fix of what I
+consider a bug.\n"))
(gunnar
(widget-insert
"\
door.\n"))
(vin
(widget-insert "\
-Vin helps maintain the older, more mature (read: moldy) versions of
-XEmacs. Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages in order to bring a more
-stable XEmacs. (Actually, he does it 'cause it's fun and he's been
-using emacs for a long, long time.) Vin also contributed the detached
-minibuffer code as well as a few minor enhancements to the menubar
-options.\n"))
+Vin maintains the stable version of XEmacs. This involves reviewing
+a lot of other peoples' patches and testing and applying them.
+He also gets to generate his own patches from time to time. Being
+release manager is a fun way to contribute to the XEmacs project.
+Write me at acs@xemacs.org if you're interested in learning more.\n"))
(vladimir
(widget-insert "\
Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun.\n"))