Re: [A-A-P-develop] Zimbu awards presented

The quality of the documentation is one of the reasons I ended up 
sticking with A-A-P and now use it for everything after discarding so 
many other similar solutions.  Thanks Adriaan and the other winners !

C

Bram Moolenaar wrote:

>These are the winners of the Zimbu awards:
>
>        Adriaan de Groot: 444 euro award for the best contribution to
>                          the A-A-P project
>               Rui Lopes: 222 euro award for the most useful patch for
>                          Aap or Agide
>             Joerg Beyer: 111 euro award for the brightest idea for the
>                          A-A-P project
>
>And of course many thanks to the people who helped improving Aap but
>didn't get an award.
>
>Adriaan de Groot has tracked down a large number of problems and
>provided solutions. He changed the documentation from SGML to XML and
>wrote an explanation about how to get the required tools for XML.
>Adriaan added support for "libtool", helped implementing language
>modules and improved the robustness of several commands.
>
>Rui Lopes made the FreeBSD port of Aap and supplied patches to make
>installing Aap work a lot better. The quality of his patches was
>remarkably high. By making the FreeBSD port he also increased the
>visibility of the A-A-P project.
>
>Joerg Beyer has supplied several solutions for tricky problems in the
>Aap implementation. The scope support was based on his ideas, he made a
>first implementation for the automatic configuration support and
>improved the setup for testing. Strangely not much of his code ended up
>in Aap, but his suggestions were indispensible.
>
>Since Adriaan de Groot works not far from where Bram Moolenaar lives, at
>the University of Nijmegen, the Zimbu award could be handed to him
>personally.
>
>Read more about the Zimbu awards and see the pictures of the award
>presentation here:
>
>        http://www.a-a-p.org/zimbu_award.html
>
>  
>




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