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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-12-01 17:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-12-01 17:47:28 +0000 |
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diff --git a/www/history.html b/www/history.html index 5556e27c..95b4adea 100644 --- a/www/history.html +++ b/www/history.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ A Brief History of GPSD <div id="Content"> -<p>There are at least three forks of gpsd wandering around. This page +<p>There have been at least three forks of gpsd wandering around. This page will explain matters.</p> <p>The gpsd project was started in 1995 by Remco Treffkorn, back when @@ -121,9 +121,20 @@ cooperation of all three of the 1.x maintainers. (The main reason for that choice of hosting site was that it offered Subversion, which Eric and the 1.x developers were all interested in experimenting with.)</p> -<p>Fritz Ganter has agreed to unfork the gpsdrive version of gpsd, but -as of May 2005 this hasn't happened yet. </p> +<p>Fritz Ganter agreed to unfork the gpsdrive version of gpsd in early +2005, but as of December 2006 this hasn't actually happened yet. </p> +<p>In the year between June 2005 and June 2006 the project went from +being mostly a solo effort by Eric to attracting a flourishing +community of developers. Prominent among them are Chris Kuethe and +Gary Miller, who were given release authority in October 2006.</p> + +<p>As 2006 draws to a close, <code>gpsd</code> now supports several +vendor binary protocols as well as the original NMEA and Zodiac. The +suite of GPS test tools has greatly expanded, and we have implemented +a rigorous regression-test framework for the daemon itself. The +daemon has acquired new features like multi-device capability and +hotplug autoconfiguration.</p> </div> <hr/> |