CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS

[Peter Stephenson]

> * Peter W. Stephenson <pws@ifh.de> ...  One of
>   the authors of the programmable completion code in zsh-2.5.0.
>...

This has been niggling at me for some time... Sven added a patch to
the manual rather generously crediting me with joint authorship of the
programmable completion.  Actually, he already had a complete working
version when I saw it; I simply worked it into the current version of
the zsh code, with a few very small changes of my own.  Then
subsequently Sven completely rewrote the code in zle_tricky.c to
improve efficiency considerably, so the amount of my code there is
extremely limited.  Even though I've produced the odd patch since,
various other people have done more on this bit.  I don't think
there's anything to justify the comment above.

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Re: contributors

[Bart Schaefer]

On May 5, 12:00pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
} Subject: contributors
}
} +* Bart Schaefer <bart@zsh.org>

Dunno if that address works; <schaefer@zsh.org> does for sure.

-- 
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http://www.well.com/user/barts              http://www.brasslantern.com

RE: contributors

[Andrej Borsenkow]

> In article <0FU3000K92K88K@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com>,
>   Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com> writes:
>
> > This updates the contributors for 3.1.7.  It's a bit
> devisive sticking some
> > people in `other patches' at the end, but the point was
> simply to identify
> > anyone who's contributed to particular parts of the shell.
> I put it in
> > alphabetical order this time.  Tanaka Akira is under `T', I
> hope that's
> > right: I realise there are two ways of transforming
> Japanese names, either
> > westernise the order or not.  I never got around to asking before...
>
> `Tanaka' is a family name and `Akira' is an individual name.  So the
> order is right.
>


No. All others are listed in "individual name" order (is it "name" or
"surname"? I always forget).

-andrej

Re: contributors

[Tanaka Akira]

In article <0FU3000K92K88K@la-la.cambridgesiliconradio.com>,
  Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com> writes:

> This updates the contributors for 3.1.7.  It's a bit devisive sticking some
> people in `other patches' at the end, but the point was simply to identify
> anyone who's contributed to particular parts of the shell.  I put it in
> alphabetical order this time.  Tanaka Akira is under `T', I hope that's
> right: I realise there are two ways of transforming Japanese names, either
> westernise the order or not.  I never got around to asking before...

`Tanaka' is a family name and `Akira' is an individual name.  So the
order is right.

> +* Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>: CVS archive, numerous completion functions
> +  for common commands, regex shell function state machine

There is akr@zsh.org.  So, please use akr@zsh.org.
-- 
Tanaka Akira

contributors

[Peter Stephenson]

This updates the contributors for 3.1.7.  It's a bit devisive sticking some
people in `other patches' at the end, but the point was simply to identify
anyone who's contributed to particular parts of the shell.  I put it in
alphabetical order this time.  Tanaka Akira is under `T', I hope that's
right: I realise there are two ways of transforming Japanese names, either
westernise the order or not.  I never got around to asking before...

If anyone spots anything else in the source tree documentation, now is the
time to mention it.  Some changes to Etc/MACHINES are probably warranted,
including compilations of distributions such as Debian and Mandrake on
multiple architectures.  Even if it works flawlessly, it's good to mention
it so that people are prompted to report any problems if it later stops
working (in theory).


Index: Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.5
diff -u -r1.1.1.5 CONTRIBUTORS
--- Etc/CONTRIBUTORS	1999/08/06 18:02:17	1.1.1.5
+++ Etc/CONTRIBUTORS	2000/05/05 10:27:13
@@ -15,6 +15,57 @@
 been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer
 at <coordinator@zsh.org>.
 
+Version 3.1.7
+-------------
+
+* Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>: configuration, various fixes esp. in
+  completion
+
+* Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>:design, testing and
+  patches for completion system, documentation, various other fixes
+
+* Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>: design, testing and patches
+  for completion system, documentation, various other fixes
+
+* Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>: History code
+
+* Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@epita.fr>: design, testing and patches for
+  completion system, documentation, various other fixes
+
+* Oliver Kiddle <opk@u.genie.co.uk>: AIX dynamic library support, various
+  completion functions, web page maintenance, documentation fixes
+
+* Andrew Main <zefram@zsh.org>: configuration and module/DLL code, IPv6
+  support, various other bits
+
+* Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@yahoo.com>: design, testing and patches
+  for completion system, documentation, various other fixes
+
+* Bart Schaefer <bart@zsh.org>: documentation and many other bits, archive
+  maintainance
+
+* Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>: various completion functions, source code
+  archive maintenance, documentation fixes, prompt themes
+
+* Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>: pattern matching code rewrite and
+  enhancements, typeset and local variables, zftp maintenance, general
+  configuration, floating point support
+
+* Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>: CVS archive, numerous completion functions
+  for common commands, regex shell function state machine
+
+* Geoff Wing <geoff@zsh.org>: mailing list and FTP archive, various other
+  bits
+
+* Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org>: almost all completion code including
+  all comp* libraries, all core functions in completion function system;
+  styles; job control code; rewrite of internal shell code structures and
+  parsing and execution code to use word code; parameter code; repair roof,
+  fix guttering, put up shelves in study, recarpet hall, ...
+
+Other patches were submitted by Will Day, Irving Wolfe, John Williams, Vin
+Shelton, Akim Demaille, Helmut Jarausch, Gene Cohler, Johan Sundström.
+
 Version 3.1.6
 -------------
 

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Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070

CONTRIBUTORS

[Zoltan Hidvegi]

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