From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id EAA12973 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 04:18:09 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA22872; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:12:07 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 14:12:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199606291720.TAA02495@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> Subject: CONTRIBUTORS To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh hacking and development) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:20:50 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"Yj1cJ3.0.Hb5.s7Nrn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1481 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu As you probably know in the distribution Etc/CONTRIBUTORS is supposed to contain the list of people who have contributed to the development of zsh. The RCS history of that file begins in August, 1994. Since than one name were removed and only three names, Richard Coleman, Zoltan Hidvegi and Wayne Davison were added. This means that this list is not very up-to-date. For example Zefram is not on this list. The ChangeLog file begins at Oct 16, 1994 and it is now really a replacement for the CONTRIBUTORS file. But most people mentioned in the CONTRIBUTORS file cannot be found in the ChangeLog. If I remove the CONTRIBUTORS file than noone will know that they did something to make zsh better. The CONTRIBUTORS file can be updated using the ChangeLog but it would be a quite time-consuming task. Also the ChangeLog documents much better of the work people did. The manual also mentions only five developers but there are certainly other people who did as much work as people mentioned there. I joined the zsh development only in February last year so I do not know much about the history of the shell. I think it would be interesting for others as well to know the brief history of zsh. tcsh's history and its main developers are listed in the manuel. pdksh has a CONTRIBUTORS file describing people who maintained the shell, the major contributors and other contributors describing what they did. Something like that would be more appropriate than a simple enumeration. The question is that who should be mentioned in this file. I think it is not necessary to mention everybody who sent a trivial one-line bugfix as this is already documented in the ChangeLog file. But it is hard to draw the line. The difference between `major contributors' and `other contributors' is usually more clear if one followed the development. I think I know who were the major contriburots since February, 1995 but I do not know what happened before that. Zoltan