(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/")
:tag (or text-to-insert url)
url))
-;; Insert a mailto: link in the buffer.
+;; Insert a mail link in the buffer.
(defun about-mailto-link (address)
- (about-url-link
- (concat "mailto:" address) address
- (concat "Send mail to " address)
- ))
+ (lexical-let ((address address))
+ (widget-create 'link
+ :tag address
+ :button-prefix ""
+ :button-suffix ""
+ :action (lambda (widget &optional event)
+ (compose-mail address))
+ :help-echo (format "Send mail to %s" address))))
;; Attach a face to a string, in order to be inserted into the buffer.
;; Make sure that the extent is duplicable, but unique. Returns the
(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
"\
(pelegri
(widget-insert
"\
-I did my my PhD at UCB and a postdoc at CSL/PARC. I joined Sun in 1990,
+I did my PhD at UCB and a postdoc at CSL/PARC. I joined Sun in 1990,
spent some time in DevPro (that is when I made my contribution to
XEmacs) and joined JavaSoft in fall '95, where I've been the lead for
several JSP-related specifications and JAX-RPC. I'm currently the Web
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
"\
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"))
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