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diff lisp/about.el @ 2297:13a418960a88
[xemacs-hg @ 2004-09-22 02:05:42 by stephent]
various doc patches <87isa7awrh.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
author | stephent |
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date | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:06:52 +0000 |
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--- a/lisp/about.el Wed Sep 22 01:10:57 2004 +0000 +++ b/lisp/about.el Wed Sep 22 02:06:52 2004 +0000 @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ (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") @@ -158,8 +159,9 @@ (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") @@ -168,19 +170,19 @@ (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 - jan jareth jason jmiller jonathan kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf - olivier oscar pittman tomonori tuck vin wmperry yoshiki)) + '(ben daiki darrylo dv fabrice golubev hniksic jan jason jmiller jonathan + kazz kirill larsi martin morioka mta ograf olivier oscar rossini pittman + scop tomonori tuck wmperry yoshiki)) (defvar about-once-and-future-hackers - '(ajc baw bw chr cthomp darrylo devin dkindred dmoore eb hbs hmuller - hobley jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook mly ograf pelegri pez - rickc rose rossini slb stig stigb thiessel vladimir)) + '(aj ajc alastair baw bw cgw chr craig cthomp dan devin dkindred dmoore eb + gunnar hbs hisashi hmuller hobley jareth jens juhp jwz kyle marcpa mcook + 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 @@ -215,10 +217,13 @@ (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) @@ -461,6 +466,26 @@ :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 " @@ -667,6 +692,10 @@ -- 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. @@ -1292,6 +1321,10 @@ (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 @@ -1376,7 +1409,15 @@ (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 @@ -1730,6 +1771,10 @@ (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")) @@ -1780,7 +1825,18 @@ (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