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@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
   and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
   the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code
   and PPC ports (from CMUCL), control stack exhaustion checking (new)
   and native threads support for x86 Linux (new).  He also refactored
   the garbage collectors for understandability, wrote code

-  (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find
+  (e.g. grovel-headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to find

   machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
   original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
   sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.
   machine-dependent and OS-dependent constants automatically, and was
   original author of the asdf, asdf-install, sb-bsd-sockets,
   sb-executable, sb-grovel and sb-posix contrib packages.

@@ -536,21 +536,26 @@ Douglas Crosher:
   handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types. 
 
 Alexey Dejneka:
   handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style (CONS FOO BAR) types. 
 
 Alexey Dejneka:

-  He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
-  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and more
-  in the compiler itself. It appears that a lot of his fixes there
-  and elsewhere reflect systematic public-spiritedness, fixing bugs
-  as they show up in sbcl-devel or as archived in the BUGS file.
-
-Paul Dietz
-  He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite for the
-  requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard.  Already, at the
-  halfway stage, it has caught many tens of bugs in SBCL, and provided
-  simple test cases for them.
-
-Miles Egan
+  He fixed many, many bugs on various themes, and has done a
+  tremendous amount of work on the compiler in particular, fixing
+  bugs and refactoring.
+
+Paul Dietz:
+  He is in the process of writing a comprehensive test suite
+  for the requirements of the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Already, at
+  the halfway stage, it has caught hundreds of bugs in SBCL, and
+  provided simple test cases for them. His random crash tester has
+  caught an old deep problem in the implementation of the stack
+  analysis phase in the compiler.
+
+Brian Downing:
+  He fixed the linker problems for building SBCL on Mac OS X.  He
+  found and fixed the cause of backtraces failing for undefined
+  functions and assembly routines.
+
+Miles Egan:

   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
   He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other

-  (which?) platforms
+  (which?) platforms.

 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal

@@ -561,6 +566,11 @@ Nathan Froyd:
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology from
   the codebase.)
 

+Bruno Haible:
+  He devised an accurate continued-fraction-based implementation of
+  RATIONALIZE, replacing a less-accurate version inherited from
+  primordial CMUCL.
+

 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 
 Matthias Hoelzl:
   He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
 

@@ -596,12 +606,20 @@ Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:

-  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X.
+  He contributed to and extensively maintained the port of SBCL to
+  MacOS X. His contributions include overcoming binary compatibility
+  issues between different versions of dlcompat on Darwin, other 
+  linker fixes, and signal handler bugfixes.

 
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 
 
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 

+Perry E. Metzger:
+  He ported SBCL to NetBSD with newer signals, building on the
+  work of Valtteri Vuorikoski.  He also provided various cleanups to
+  the C runtime.
+

 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
   CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of
 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
   CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of

@@ -609,6 +627,10 @@ Gerd Moellman:
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 
   faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
   less buggy.
 

+Timothy Moore:
+  He designed and implemented the original CMUCL linkage-table, on
+  which the SBCL implementation thereof is based.
+

 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the

@@ -621,23 +643,48 @@ Patrik Nordebo:
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 
   He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
   ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
 

+Scott Parish:
+  He ported SBCL to OpenBSD-with-ELF.
+

 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official
   Debian packages of SBCL.
 
 Christophe Rhodes:
 Kevin M. Rosenberg:
   He provided the ACL-style toplevel (sb-aclrepl contrib module), and
   a number of MOP-related bug reports.  He also creates the official
   Debian packages of SBCL.
 
 Christophe Rhodes:

-  He ported SBCL to SPARC, made various port-related and SPARC-related
-  changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*), made many fixes and
-  improvements in the compiler's type system, has essentially
-  completed the work to enable bootstrapping SBCL under unrelated
-  (non-SBCL, non-CMU-CL) Common Lisps, and contributed in other ways
-  as well.
+  He ported SBCL to SPARC (based on the CMUCL backend), made various
+  port-related and SPARC-related changes (like *BACKEND-SUBFEATURES*),
+  made many fixes and improvements in the compiler's type system, has
+  essentially completed the work to enable bootstrapping SBCL under
+  unrelated (non-SBCL, non-CMU-CL) Common Lisps.  He participated in
+  the modernization of SBCL's CLOS implementation, implemented the
+  treatment of compiler notes as restartable conditions, provided
+  optimizations to compiler output, and contributed in other ways as
+  well.

 
 Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 
 
 Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way
   which supports callbacks from C code into SBCL.
 

+Rudi Schlatte:
+  He ported Paul Foley's simple-streams implementation from cmucl,
+  converted the sbcl manual to Texinfo and wrote a documentation
+  string extractor that keeps function documentation in the manual
+  current.
+
+Nikodemus Siivola:
+  He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
+  implemented package locks, ported the linkage-table code from CMUCL,
+  reimplemented STEP, and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs 
+  besides.
+
+Juho Snellman:
+  He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
+  function on strings, removal of unneccessary bounds checks, and
+  multiple improvements to performance of common operations on
+  bignums.  He ported and enhanced the statistical profiler written by
+  Gerd Moellmann for CMU CL.
+

 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
   stream types and operations on them.
 Brian Spilsbury:
   He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
   stream types and operations on them.

@@ -645,7 +692,7 @@ Brian Spilsbury:
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been
 Raymond Toy:
   He continued to work on CMU CL after the SBCL fork, especially on
   floating point stuff. Various patches and fixes of his have been

-  ported to SBCL.
+  ported to SBCL, including his Sparc port of linkage-table.

 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite
 
 Peter Van Eynde:
   He wrestled the CLISP test suite into a mostly portable test suite

@@ -671,15 +718,18 @@ Raymond Wiker:
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 
 
 INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, CVS commit logs, etc.)
 

+VJA  Vincent Arkesteijn

 MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 DB   Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka
 MNA  Martin Atzmueller
 DB   Daniel Barlow (also "dan")
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka

+PFD  Paul F. Dietz

 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 AL   Arthur Lemmens
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 AL   Arthur Lemmens
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 PRM  Pierre Mai
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes

+NS   Nikodemus Siivola

 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 PW   Paul Werkowski