[GNUe] Where are the KCs?

[Margaret Elliott]

Hi. My name is Margaret Elliott. I am a researcher from the Institute 
for Software Research, University of California, Irvine. My colleagues 
Walt Scacchi, Research Professor from the University of California, 
Irvine, and Mark Ackerman, Research Professor from the Computer Science 
Department at the University of Michigan are gathering data for a paper 
on the origins of the Kernel Cousins and how they are used in projects 
like GNUe. (See our Web site for some papers we have written on GNUe and 
on free and open source software development: 
http://www.isr.uci.edu/research-open-source.htm.)

We noticed that Peter Sullivan first wrote the KCs, then he stopped 
writing them around August 2003, Arturas took over the job, and then 
stopped in early 2004. Can anyone help us out by possibly answer some of 
these questions:

1. Did the KCs become sleeping cousins because no one else volunteered 
to write them?

2. Do you all REALLY miss reading the KCs instead of now having to 
review the IRC and mailing lists?

3. Are the KCs less important now than in 2001-2003 since more of GNUe 
is complete?

4. Does anyone know the whereabouts of Peter Sullivan, the person who 
appears to have written most of the KCs but does not appear on the GNUe 
Web site contributor list? Id like to send him some email asking him 
about his KC experience.

5. How about Arturas Krakovas who took over the KCs for a while after 
Peter left? Is he still active in GNUe but not in KCs?

Thank you for your interest in our research and I hope that you can help 
us with these questions.

Best wishes,
Margaret Elliott
Research Specialist
Institute for Software Research and
Center for Research on Information Technology in Organizations
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697