xemacs-beta: lisp/about.el comparison

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[xemacs-hg @ 2004-09-22 02:05:42 by stephent] various doc patches <87isa7awrh.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

author	stephent
date	Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:06:52 +0000
parents	a58ea4d0d0cd
children	7fc13d0eacd5

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 (oscar    "Oscar Figueiredo"  "oscar@xemacs.org")
 (pelegri  "Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart" "pelegri@xemacs.org")
 (pez      "Peter Pezaris"     "pez@xemacs.org")
 (piper    "Andy Piper"        "andy@xemacs.org")
 (pittman  "Daniel Pittman"    "pittman@xemacs.org")
+(purvis   "Malcolm Purvis"    "mpurvis@xemacs.org")
 (rickc    "Rick Campbell"     "rickc@xemacs.org")
 (rose     "John Rose"         "rose@xemacs.org")
 (rossini  "Anthony Rossini"   "rossini@xemacs.org")
 (scop     "Ville Skyttä"      "scop@xemacs.org")
 (slb      "Steve Baur"        "steve@xemacs.org")
 (stig     "Jonathan Stigelman" "stig@xemacs.org")
 (stigb    "Stig Bjorlykke"    "stigb@xemacs.org")
 (thiessel "Marcus Thiessel"   "marcus@xemacs.org")
 (tomonori "Tomonori Ikeyama"  "tomonori@xemacs.org")
 (tuck     "Matt Tucker"       "tuck@xemacs.org")
-(turnbull "Stephen Turnbull"  "turnbull@xemacs.org")
+(turnbull "Stephen Turnbull"  "stephen@xemacs.org")
 (vin      "Vin Shelton"       "acs@xemacs.org")
+(viteno   "Norbert Koch"      "viteno@xemacs.org")
 (vladimir "Vladimir Ivanovic" "vladimir@xemacs.org")
 (wmperry  "William Perry"     "wmperry@xemacs.org")
 (yoshiki  "Yoshiki Hayashi"   "yoshiki@xemacs.org")
 )
 "Alist of XEmacs hackers.")
 (defvar about-current-release-maintainers
 ;; this list should not necessarily be in sorted order.
-'(adrian ben hniksic james piper scop sperber turnbull))
+'(adrian james piper purvis sperber turnbull vin viteno))
 (defvar about-other-current-hackers
 ;; to sort this list or the one below, use:
 ;; M-x sort-regexp-fields RET [a-z]+ RET \(.*\) RET
-'(aj alastair cgw craig daiki dan dv fabrice golubev gunnar hisashi
+'(ben daiki darrylo dv fabrice golubev hniksic jan jason jmiller jonathan
-jan jareth jason jmiller jonathan kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf
+kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf olivier oscar rossini pittman
-olivier oscar pittman tomonori tuck vin wmperry yoshiki))
+scop tomonori tuck wmperry yoshiki))
 (defvar about-once-and-future-hackers
-'(ajc baw bw chr cthomp darrylo devin dkindred dmoore eb hbs hmuller
+'(aj ajc alastair baw bw cgw chr craig cthomp dan devin dkindred dmoore eb
-	hobley jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook mly ograf pelegri pez
+gunnar hbs hisashi hmuller hobley jareth jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook
-	rickc rose rossini slb stig stigb thiessel vladimir))
+mly ograf pelegri pez rickc rose slb stig stigb thiessel vladimir))
 ;; The CAR of alist elements is a valid argument to `about-url-link'.
 ;; It is preferred to a simple string, because it makes maintenance
 ;; easier.  Please add new URLs to this list.
 (defvar about-url-alist
 (ograf      . "http://www.fga.de/~ograf/")
 (pez        . "http://cbs.sportsline.com/")
 (piper      . "http://www.andypiper.com/")
 (rossini    . "http://faculty.washington.edu/rossini/")
 (stigb      . "http://www.tihlde.hist.no/~stigb/")
+(turnbull   . "http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/yaseppochi-gumi.html")
 (vin        . "http://www.upa.org/")
 (vladimir   . "http://www.leonora.org/~vladimir/")
 (wget       . "http://sunsite.dk/wget/")
-(xemacs     . "http://www.xemacs.org/"))
+(xemacs     . "http://www.xemacs.org/")
+(xemacs-cvs . "http://cvs.xemacs.org/")
+(xemacs-lists . "http://www.xemacs.org/Lists/"))
 "Some of the more important URLs.")
 (defvar about-left-margin 3)
 (defun about-lookup-url (name)
 		     :action 'about-hackers
 		     :button-prefix ""
 		     :button-suffix ""
 		     "The full list of contributors...")
 (widget-insert "\n
+The current package release engineer is Norbert Koch.
+Andreas Jaeger was the first package release engineer following the split
+of the XEmacs code base into core implementation and packaged Lisp.
+He was succeeded by Steve Youngs, then Ville Skyttä.\n\n")
+(setup-person 'viteno)
+(setup-person 'aj)
+(setup-person 'scop)
+(widget-insert "
+Vin Shelton is the maintainer of the stable branch, 21.4.
+Stephen Turnbull was the project manager for the release.  Andy Piper
+maintained the Windows branch until the release was declared stable.\n\n")
+(setup-person 'vin)
+(setup-person 'turnbull)
+(setup-person 'piper)
+(widget-insert "
+Ben Wing and Martin Buchholz were heavy code contributors and maintainers
+for 21.2 (the development branch leading to 21.4).\n\n")
+(setup-person 'martin)
+(setup-person 'ben)
+(widget-insert "
 Steve Baur was the primary maintainer for 19.15 through 21.0.\n\n")
 (setup-person 'slb)
 (widget-insert "
 Chuck Thompson and Ben Wing were the maintainers for 19.11 through 19.14
 and heavy code contributors for 19.8 through 19.10.\n\n")
 -- proper dialog boxes
 -- tabs for selecting buffers
 -- support for variable-width and variable height fonts
 -- support for arbitrary pixmaps and widgets in a buffer
 -- face support on TTY's, including color
+Many of these are now available in GNU Emacs 21, but the XEmacs
+implementations are generally more efficient, and the XEmacs APIs are
+generally more in line with modern programming practices.
 * An installable package system, with a huge number of packages available
 that have been tested and are known to work with the latest version
 of XEmacs.
 maintains the MS Windows netinstaller.\n"))
 (pittman
 (widget-insert
 "\
 Sorry, no personal information available about me yet.\n"))
+(purvis
+(widget-insert
+"\
+Sorry, no personal information available about me yet.\n"))
 (rickc
 (widget-insert "\
 The hacker formerly known as Rick Busdiecker is a developer and
 technical manager at Deutsche Bank in New York during daylight hours.
 In the evenings he maintains three children, and when he ought to be
 "\
 Sorry, no personal information available about me yet.\n"))
 (turnbull
 (widget-insert "\
 Stephen lives with his Japanese wife and children in Tsukuba, Japan,
-where he is a professor of economics at the University of Tsukuba.\n"))
+where he is a professor of economics at the University of Tsukuba,
+and occasionally regretting not going to MIT for college, where he
+surely would have gotten addicted to computers early enough to have
+learned to actually code.
+Well, they also serve who rail 'n' rant.
+")
+(about-url-link 'turnbull nil "Visit Steve's personal page")
+(widget-insert "\n"))
 (vin
 (widget-insert "\
 I own and operate my own consulting firm, EtherSoft.  Shhh, don't
 tell anyone, but it's named after an Ultimate team I used to play
 with in Austin, Texas - the Ether Bunnies.  I'm getting too old
 support.\n"))
 (pittman
 (widget-insert
 "\
 Sorry, no information about my XEmacs contributions yet.\n"))
+(purvis
+(widget-insert
+"\
+Currently filing off some of the splinters in the GTK port.\n"))
 (rickc
 (widget-insert "\
 Maintainer of ILISP.\n"))
 (rose
 (widget-insert "\
 "\
 Sorry, no information about my XEmacs contributions yet.\n"))
 (turnbull
 (widget-insert
 "\
-Former XEmacs Beta Release Manager.\n"))
+Mostly a source of random noise and occasionally useful advice on
+I18N up until people starting hinting that (2 years after the release
+of 21.1) it was time for various projects to get pushed into the public
+eye.  Steve was the prime mover behind the release of 21.4.
+Since Vin took over the maintainership of 21.4, Steve has featured as
+janitor and waterboy, handling (more or less) all those administrative
+tasks that need to get done somehow by somebody---wishing he were coding
+the whole time.
+Steve is maintainer of the edict, mule-ucs, and latin-unity packages,
+and has contributed quite a bit of documentation, especially for Mule.\n"))
 (vin
 (widget-insert "\
 Vin helps maintain the older, more mature (read: moldy) versions of
 XEmacs.  Vin maintains the XEmacs patch pages in order to bring a more
 stable XEmacs.  (Actually, he does it 'cause it's fun and he's been

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