Cygwin Gold Star Awards

This page is dedicated to the Cygwin Gold Star award. The award is given to people who have pleased a Cygwin project lead by their actions or contributions. Each star is a link detailing the circumstances in which it was awarded.

Distinguished recipients

• Takashi Yano (Jul 2018) (Mar 2019) (Dec 2019) (Nov 2021) ×6 (Jan 2023) (Sep 2023) ×6 (Jan 2024) (Jan 2024) – For adopting the pocl package.
• Marco Atzeri (Jan 2010) (Jul 2011) (Feb 2012) (Mar 2012) (Mar 2012) (Jan 2013) (May 2014) (Aug 2014) (Aug 2014) (Jan 2015) (Feb 2015) (Mar 2015) (Apr 2015) (May 2015) (Jul 2015) (Jul 2015) (Mar 2016) (Apr 2016) (May 2016) (Dec 2019) (May 2023) (Dec 2023) (Jan 2024) – For (silently) adopting the librsvg2 package.
• Andrew Schulman (Aug 2005) (Jul 2006) (Feb 2007) (Jul 2007) (Jul 2009) (Dec 2011) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) (Oct 2015) (Oct 2017) (Aug 2023) – For adopting the jq package.
• Daisuke Fujimura (Jun 2023) – For adopting ruby and its many associated packages.
• Jon Turney (Jul 2009) (Jul 2010) (Dec 2010) (Nov 2011) (Nov 2011) (Aug 2013) (Oct 2014) (Mar 2015) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) (Jul 2015) (Sep 2015) (Oct 2015) (Jan 2016) (Mar 2016) (Jun 2016) (Mar 2017) (Oct 2018) (Jun 2019) (Aug 2019) (Dec 2019) (May 2023) (May 2023) – For maintaining the Cygwin infrastructure.
• Corinna Vinschen (Jul 2003) (Dec 2004) (Dec 2009) (Nov 2011) (Mar 2012) (Oct 2014) (Mar 2015) (Mar 2015) (Mar 2019) (Nov 2021) (May 2023) – For strange and subtle manipulations.
• Achim Gratz ×6 (Apr 2013) (Apr 2014) (Jun 2014) (Jul 2014) (Jan 2015) (Feb 2015) (Feb 2015) (Mar 2015) (May 2015) (Jul 2015) (Aug 2015) (Aug 2015) (Jun 2017) (Jul 2017) (Oct 2017) (Jul 2019) (Apr 2021) (Dec 2021) (May 2023) – For strange and subtle manipulations.
• Ken Brown (Dec 2011) (Oct 2014) (Feb 2015) (Feb 2015) (Mar 2015) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) (Sep 2015) (Jun 2016) (Mar 2017) (Jul 2017) (Oct 2017) (Oct 2017) (Nov 2017) (Dec 2017) (Nov 2018) (Dec 2019) (Nov 2021) (May 2023) – For strange and subtle manipulations.
• Lemures Lemniscati (Apr 2021) – For updating the URLs in cygport to https.
• Cygwin (Oct 2020) – For providing a Linux-like environment in Windows for 25 years.
• Yaakov Selkowitz (Sep 2005) (Jul 2007) (Jul 2009) (Dec 2009) (Dec 2009) (Feb 2010) (Jun 2010) (Jun 2010) (Jun 2010) (Mar 2011) (Nov 2011) (Mar 2012) (Mar 2012) (Mar 2012) (Mar 2012) (Jul 2012) (Jan 2013) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) (Mar 2020) – For maintaining a lot of packages for many years. Like, more than everyone else put together. Really.
• David Rothenberger (Jul 2003) (Jun 2005) (Jul 2007) (Jul 2010) (May 2013) (Aug 2013) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) (Jan 2020) – For maintaining subversion for the last 12 (!) years.
• David Stacey (Sep 2012) (Aug 2013) (Nov 2013) (Jun 2014) (Feb 2015) (Mar 2015) (Jun 2018) – For maintaining lots of packages over the years.
• Thomas Wolff (Jul 2015) (Feb 2018) – For maintaining the workhorse mintty package.
• Andy Li (May 2017) – For adopting the libatomic_ops and libgc packages.
• Brian Inglis (Apr 2017) – For adopting the units package.
• Peter Castro (Mar 2017) – For shocking and audacious disservice to the community.
• Chris Sutcliffe (Nov 2006) (Apr 2007) (Jul 2007) (Aug 2012) (Sep 2014) (Feb 2016) (Feb 2016) – For adopting the astyle package.
• Mark Geisert (Sep 2013) (Aug 2015) (Oct 2015) – For adopting the cygutils package.
• Adam Dinwoodie (Mar 2014) (Aug 2014) (Jul 2015) – For helping with the Great Perl Update of 2015.
• Jari Aalto (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Aug 2007) (Dec 2007) (Dec 2007) (Oct 2012) (Oct 2012) (Jun 2014) (Jun 2014) (Mar 2015) (Jul 2015) – For helping with the Great Perl Update of 2015.
• Joel Johnson (Jul 2015) – For adopting the iperf package.
• Volker Zell (Nov 2003) (Sep 2005) (Apr 2007) (Jul 2007) (Dec 2007) (Dec 2007) (Dec 2007) (Mar 2008) (Apr 2012) (Aug 2013) (Apr 2015) – For adopting the xclip package.
• Daniel Boland (Apr 2015) – For adopting the inetutils package.
• Tony Kelman (Aug 2014) (Feb 2015) – For adopting the cmake package.
• Pavel Fedin (Jun 2013) (Jan 2015) – For adopting the rpm package.
• Jason Tishler (Oct 2004) (Jan 2015) – For 14 years of contributions to Cygwin.
• Kai Tietz (Oct 2014) – For finding and fixing a nasty CPU register corruption bug.
• Eli Zaretskii (Oct 2014) – For finding and fixing a nasty CPU register corruption bug.
• Eric Blake (Jan 2005) (May 2005) (Feb 2006) (Nov 2006) (Jul 2009) (Sep 2014) (Oct 2014) (Oct 2014) (Oct 2014) (Oct 2014) – For adopting the gperf package.
• Christopher G. Faylor ×20 (Apr 2004) (Feb 2005) (Jul 2008) (Dec 2009) (Aug 2014) – For lifetime achievement and contributions to the Cygwin project.
• Chris J. Breisch (Jun 2014) – For packaging man-db.
• Shaddy Baddah (Sep 2009) (Nov 2013) (May 2014) – For tracking down and fixing a screen corruption bug in screen.
• David Levine (Aug 2013) – For adopting the par package.
• Frank Fesevur (Jun 2013) – For adopting the shutdown package.
• JonY (Aug 2012) (Oct 2012) – For adopting the w32api package.
• Warren Young (Sep 2007) (Mar 2012) – For redesigning the Cygwin logo in setup.
• Andy Koppe (Jul 2010) (Nov 2011) – For integrating Mintty shortcuts into setup.
• Charles (Chuck) Wilson (Dec 2006) (Jun 2007) (Apr 2008) (Apr 2008) (Mar 2009) (Aug 2010) (Oct 2011) – For supporting libiconv.
• David Sastre (Mar 2011) – For adopting and revamping the vital base-files package.
• John Carey (Mar 2011) – For kicking butt on CWD handling.
• John Morrison (Sep 2010) – For years of service maintaining the base-files and base-passwd packages.
• Damien Doligez (Sep 2010) – For adopting the ocaml package.
• Dave Korn (Jan 2004) (Mar 2004) (Sep 2004) (Jun 2005) (Mar 2006) (Nov 2006) (Mar 2007) (Jul 2009) (Aug 2010) – For recording zero-size tarballs as successfully installed in setup, thereby de-annoying CGF.
• Jason DePriest (Nov 2009) – For reminding us of the right way to handle a FAQ.
• Ralph Hempel (Jul 2009) – For tireless support of the setup command line.
• Andrew Punch (May 2009) – For adding the package search feature in setup (hear, hear).
• Brian Dessent (May 2004) (Sep 2004) (Apr 2005) (Jun 2006) (Dec 2008) – For patience, insight, and helpfulness on the mailing lists.
• Matt Wozniski (Jun 2008) – For pointing out what should have been obvious.
• Max Bowsher (Nov 2003) (Apr 2008) – For lifetime contribution to the Cygwin project.
• Lapo Luchini (Jan 2006) (Aug 2007) (Dec 2007) – For adopting the nano package.
• Jon Allen (Nov 2005) (Nov 2006) (Aug 2007) – For adopting the tnef package.
• Jan Nieuwenhuizen (Jul 2007) – For quietly taking over the libfontconfig1 and libfontconfig-devel packages (slightly retroactive).
• Steffen Sledz (Jul 2007) – For efforts in adopting a tough package (emacs).
• Reini Urban (Oct 2004) (Oct 2004) (Aug 2006) (Jul 2007) – For being mentally prepared to take over maintainership of perl.
• Pierre A. Humblet (Jun 2003) (May 2004) (Apr 2007) – For taking over cron.
• Phil Betts (Mar 2007) – For not being afraid to climb on that ol' soapbox re: 3PPs.
• Joshua Daniel Franklin (Mar 2003) (Dec 2006) (Dec 2006) – For his highly appreciated commitment to maintaining Cygwin documentation over the last couple of years.
• Volker Quetschke (Nov 2006) – For picking up the problematic ImageMagick package and making it functional.
• Matthew Woehlke (Jul 2006) (Sep 2006) – For wisely redirecting what could have been an HTML email flame war into the hippo zone.
• Tanya Blake, Molly Franklin, and all of our wives (Sep 2005) (Mar 2006) – For their invaluable efforts in bringing future cygwin users into the world.
• James R. Phillips (Feb 2006) – For adopting the ghostscript package.
• Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes (Jul 2004) (Jan 2005) (Jan 2006) – For pointing out that package maintainers should use snapshots.
• Igor Peshansky (né Pechtchanski) (Apr 2003) (Jul 2003) (Nov 2003) (Jan 2006) – For tracking down incorrect identification of non-Cygwin processes and sticking by it.
• Antony Baxter (Oct 2005) – For "a nice comeback" (a.k.a. seeing that fiddler crab).
• Alan Hourihane (Aug 2005) – For the offer to take over Cygwin/X maintainership.
• Larry Hall (Apr 2005) (Jun 2005) – For the most on-topic and painful pun.
• Max Kaehn (Jun 2005) – For the truly heroic effort of understanding and documenting how cygtls works.
• Karl M. (May 2003) (Jun 2005) – For the "Cygwin night at the OSCAs" concept (need I say more?).
• Brian Ford (Nov 2003) (Jun 2004) (Nov 2004) – For spearheading the dwarf-2 effort for Cygwin.
• Dave Kilroy (Oct 2004) – For going above and beyond the expected volunteer effort (with the chere package).
• Robert R. Schneck-McConnell (Jan 2004) (Oct 2004) – For an attempt to apply a creative solution to a problem.
• James Hu (Jun 2004) – For volunteering to take over cURL.
• Kevin P. Roth (Jun 2004) – For years of cURL service (retroactive).
• Matthew O. Persico (Apr 2004) – For "sheer cleverness" (a.k.a. saying it with sheet music).
• Anonymous contributor ×10 (Apr 2004) – For contributing a brand new 64-bit Windows system.
• Philippe Ritter (Dec 2003) – For actually testing a snapshot unbidden and reporting that it fixed a problem.
• Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (Nov 2003) – For taking over splint.
• Harold L. Hunt II (Nov 2003) – For taking over links.
• Gary R. Van Sickle (Nov 2003) – For numerous Cygwin setup contributions leading to resizeability.
• Frank Richter ×7 (Nov 2003) – For making Cygwin setup resizeable.
• Daniel Reed (Oct 2003) – For being a great package coordinator on cygwin-apps.
• Gerrit P. Haase (Oct 2003) – For heroically taking over gcc.
• Mark Blackburn (Aug 2003) – For volunteering to maintain lftp.
• Abraham Backus (Jul 2003) – For being the first to recompile his package for Cygwin 1.5.0.
• Dario Alcocer (May 2003) – For being an example of reasonable discussion on the list.
• Gareth Pearce (Apr 2003) – For educating the community on gcc versioning.
• Randall Roy Schulz (Apr 2003) (Apr 2003) – For suggesting "cygcheck as an attachment".
• Elfyn McBratney (Mar 2003) (Mar 2003) – For standing up and enforcing the GPL.
• Eric Fifer (Apr 2000) – For enlightening people on the properties of /cygdrive.