;;; about.el --- the About The Authors page (shameless self promotion).
-;; Copyright (c) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (c) 1997, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Copyright (C) 2001 Ben Wing.
;; Keywords: extensions
(devin "Matthieu Devin" "devin@xemacs.org")
(dkindred "Darrell Kindred" "dkindred@xemacs.org")
(dmoore "David Moore" "dmoore@xemacs.org")
- (dv "Didier Verna" "didier@xemacs.org")
+ (didier "Didier Verna" "didier@xemacs.org")
(eb "Eric Benson" "eb@xemacs.org")
(fabrice "Fabrice Popineau" "fabrice@xemacs.org")
(golubev "Ilya Golubev" "golubev@xemacs.org")
(hobley "David hobley" "hobley@xemacs.org")
(jan "Jan Vroonhof" "jan@xemacs.org")
(jareth "Jareth Hein" "jareth@xemacs.org")
+ (jas "Simon Josefsson" "simon@xemacs.org")
(jason "Jason R. Mastaler" "jason@xemacs.org")
(jens "Jens Lautenbacher" "jens@xemacs.org")
(jmiller "Jeff Miller" "jmiller@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 didier 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
- hobley jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook mly ograf pelegri pez
+ hobley jas jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook mly ograf pelegri pez
rickc rose rossini slb stig stigb thiessel vladimir))
;; The CAR of alist elements is a valid argument to `about-url-link'.
(daiki . "http://deisui.bug.org/diary/servlet/view")
(dkindred . "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/dkindred/me.html")
(dmoore . "http://oj.egbt.org/dmoore/")
- (dv . "http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/")
+ (didier . "http://didier.lrde.org/")
+ (dvljazz . "http://www.didierverna.com/")
(fabrice . "http://www.ese-metz.fr/~popineau/")
(fptex . "http://www.fptex.org/")
+ (jas . "http://josefsson.org/")
(jason . "http://www.mastaler.com/")
(juhp . "http://www.01.246.ne.jp/~juhp/")
(jwz . "http://www.jwz.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
He has a page at ")
(about-url-link 'dmoore nil "Visit David's home page")
(widget-insert ".\n"))
- (dv
- (widget-insert "\
-I graduated at ENST (an engineering school in Paris) and have a Ph.D.
-in computer science. I'm currently a teacher at EPITA (another
-engineering school, still in Paris) and a researcher at LRDE (EPITA's
-research and development laboratory). Our research topics include
-generic programming and distributed virtual reality.
-
-Apart from XEmacs, I'm also involved in other free software projects,
-including Gnus, BBDB, and the GNU \"autotools\". I also wrote some
-LaTeX packages (ugh :-).
-
-All of this, actually, is only 60% true. Two days per week, I'm also a
-semi-professional Jazz guitar player (and singer), which means that it
-is not the way I earn my crust, but things may very well reverse in
-the future ...\n\n")
- (widget-insert "Visit Didier's home page: ")
- (about-url-link 'dv nil "Visit Didier's home page")
+ (didier
+ (widget-insert "\
+Didier has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is currently working as an
+assistant professor for an engineering school in Paris). He gives
+lectures on Operating Systems, Computer Graphics, Functional Programming
+and Typesetting. His research interests include Genericity, Object
+Orientation and Functional Programming, all in one language:
+
+... Common Lisp.
+
+
+Apart from the world of XEmacs and Emacs Lisp, Didier is also the author
+of several LaTeX packages (FiNK, FiXme, QCM and CurVe) and an occasional
+contributor to other Free Software projects (the GNU Autotools most
+notably; he was one of the technical reviewers for the \"Goat Book\").
+
+But all of this is only 60% true... Two days per week, Didier is indeed
+a semi-professional Jazz guitar player (and singer), which means that he
+doesn't quite earn his crust with it, but things may very well reverse in
+the future...\n")
+ (widget-insert "\nVisit Didier's scientific website: ")
+ (about-url-link 'didier nil "Visit Didier's scientific website")
+ (widget-insert "\nVisit Didier's musical website: ")
+ (about-url-link 'dvljazz nil "Visit Didier's musical website")
(widget-insert "\n"))
(eb
(widget-insert
graphics and a garbage collector, but is multithreaded to boot!
Unfortunately his XEmacs time is directly limited by the amount of
traffic on the M40.\n"))
+ (jas
+ (widget-insert "\
+
+Simon lives in Stockholm where he has discovered that computers
+can be a powerful procrastinating tool. Combined with a
+frustrating desire to see computers simply work, he spends most
+of his time complaining. Occasionally he rises up to the task
+and produces something that others may complain about, which
+brings him increased satisfaction with every bug report. Today
+he is pretending to be a network security guy, with a preference
+for standardization issues, while secretly longing to start a
+cafe or becoming a theoretical computer scientist. His personal
+interest is literature, and to some extent traveling, but will
+try anything for fun, such as juggling, skiing, wine, and
+long-distance biking.
+
+See: ")
+ (about-url-link 'jas nil "Visit Simon's homepage")
+ (widget-insert ".\n"))
(jareth
(widget-insert "\
Jareth Hein is a mountain boy who abandoned his home state of Colorado
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 Adaptive Optics Associates
+in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I used to play a lot of Ultimate (see\n")
+ (about-url-link 'vin nil "Visit the Ultimate Players Association homepage")
+ (widget-insert " for more details), but I don't have time to
+play much any more. Nowadays I'm a family man, so I spend most of
+my time with my wife, Becky, and our sons, Noah and Francisco.\n"))
(vladimir
(widget-insert "\
Former technical lead for XEmacs at Sun. He is now writing a book on
(dmoore
(widget-insert "\
David has contributed greatly to the quest to speed up XEmacs.\n"))
- (dv
- (widget-insert "\
-I joined the development of XEmacs in 1996, and have been one of the
-core maintainers since 1998. Although I'm mostly interested in the
-GUI, ergonomics, redisplay and autoconf issues, it's probably simpler
-to describe what I'm *not* involved in: I've never touched the Lisp
-implementation, and I probably never will...
-
-I'm the author of the multicast support, I wrote and maintain some
-external Emacs Lisp packages (including mchat) and I'm also
-responsible for some of the core Lisp code (including the rectangle
-library which I rewrote for both XEmacs and GNU Emacs).\n"))
+ (didier
+ (widget-insert "\
+Didier joined the development of XEmacs in 1996, and has been one of
+the core maintainers since 1998. His very first contribution was the
+translation of the tutorial to French. Since then, he has contributed
+various bug fixes and enhancements in fields as diverse as the GUI,
+redisplay engine and autoconf support.
+
+Didier is the official maintainer of some core libraries (rect, cus-edit,
+wid-edit) and the author of the multicast support. He is also the author
+of several packages, including mchat and Patcher.\n"))
(eb
(widget-insert "\
Also part of the original Lucid Emacs development team. Eric played a
(widget-insert "\
Owner of cvs.xemacs.org, the machine that holds the XEmacs CVS
repository, and author of some of the graphics code in XEmacs.\n"))
+ (jas
+ (widget-insert "\
+Wrote and/or integrated several packages for Gnus, such as
+support for IMAP, Sieve, format=flowed, GnuTLS, S/MIME, and PGP.
+Irregularly synchronizes lisp code between Emacs and XEmacs. He
+maintains the mail-lib, sieve, sasl, pgg and ecrypto XEmacs
+packages. Operates the secondary DNS and mail server for
+xemacs.org.\n"))
(jason
(widget-insert "\
Beta tester, manager of the various XEmacs mailing lists and binary
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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