Re: Regarding Ken Moffat

On 2/5/26 4:00 PM, "Douglas R. Reno" ([email protected] via 
blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> This is a bit of a challenging email for me personally at least to 
> write, as I was friends with Ken for many years from private mails.
>
> Ken Moffat joined the LFS project somewhere around February 2004. His 
> first contribution back then was to fontconfig, where the font 
> directories were incorrect. The first release he was mentioned in was 
> BLFS 5.1-pre1. He was with the LFS project as an editor until last 
> year, when he stepped down due to health reasons. His last request of 
> us was to archive his font website, which is something he was very 
> passionate about.
>
> Ken did a lot for us over the 21 years that he was an editor, 
> including significant contributions to security, TeXLive, command line 
> mail utilities, and the Mozilla products, which he maintained in BLFS 
> for many many years. Ken was also the editor who developed the 
> security advisories that most users use today, and who encouraged me 
> to continue maintaining them and to continue my studies into security. 
> Since he stepped down last year, he had requested that I take over 
> TexLive for BLFS and gave me a bunch of knowledge transfer information 
> to keep that maintain. For as long as I am an editor, I will continue 
> to do so, and support mutt and fetchmail as well.
>
> We recently discovered that Ken passed away on June 24th, 2025. He 
> will be missed, and may he rest in peace...
>
> In honor of Ken, I would like to request that we edit the 
> book/dedication.xml in LFS, BLFS, and our other projects for the 13.0 
> release to dedicate them to Ken Moffat. If possible, I would also like 
> to request a mention of Ken in the release announcements.
>
> - Doug
>
>
I was sad when Ken stepped down and feel a dedication would be 
appropriate.  It would be a nice touch.

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