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@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ by Bill Chiles to add encapsulation, and modified more by William Lott
 to add FDEFN objects.
 
 The CMU CL condition system (code/error.lisp) was based on
 to add FDEFN objects.
 
 The CMU CL condition system (code/error.lisp) was based on

-some prototyping code written by Ken Pitman at Symbolics.
+some prototyping code written by Kent Pitman at Symbolics.

 
 The CMU CL HASH-TABLE system was originally written by Skef Wholey
 for Spice Lisp, then rewritten by William Lott, then rewritten
 
 The CMU CL HASH-TABLE system was originally written by Skef Wholey
 for Spice Lisp, then rewritten by William Lott, then rewritten

@@ -452,8 +452,9 @@ Aronson, and Steve Handerson.
 
 Douglas Crosher wrote code to support Gray streams, added X86 support
 for the debugger and relocatable code, wrote a conservative
 
 Douglas Crosher wrote code to support Gray streams, added X86 support
 for the debugger and relocatable code, wrote a conservative

-generational GC for the X86 port, and added X86-specific extensions to
-support stack groups and multiprocessing.
+generational GC for the X86 port.  He also added X86-specific
+extensions to support stack groups and multiprocessing, but these are
+not present in SBCL

 
 The CMU CL user manual credits Robert MacLachlan as editor. A chapter
 on the CMU CL interprocess communication extensions (not supported in
 
 The CMU CL user manual credits Robert MacLachlan as editor. A chapter
 on the CMU CL interprocess communication extensions (not supported in

@@ -506,15 +507,20 @@ Martin Atzmueller:
   I've lost count. See the CVS logs.)
 
 Daniel Barlow:
   I've lost count. See the CVS logs.)
 
 Daniel Barlow:

-  He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
-  CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He
-  ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL, and then
-  continued to improve the ports. He wrote code (e.g. grovel_headers.c
-  and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle machine-dependence and
-  OS-dependence automatically, reducing the amount of hand-tweaking
-  required to keep ports synchronized. He's also provided support
-  for SBCL (as well as for free Common Lisp in general) through
-  his CLiki website.
+  His contributions have included support for shared object loading
+  (from CMUCL), the Cheney GC for non-x86 ports (from CMUCL), Alpha
+  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
+  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.
+
+Robert E. Brown:
+  He has reported various bugs and submitted several patches, 
+  especially improving removing gratuitous efficiencies in the
+  standard library.

 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,

@@ -530,11 +536,24 @@ 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.
+  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.
+
+Miles Egan:
+  He creates binary packages of SBCL releases for Red Hat and other
+  (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

@@ -551,6 +570,9 @@ Matthias Hoelzl:
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 
 Espen S Johnsen:
   He provided an ANSI-compliant version of CHANGE-CLASS for PCL.
 

+Frederik Kuivinen:
+  He showed how to implement the DEBUG-RETURN functionality.
+

 Arthur Lemmens:
   He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
   SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows
 Arthur Lemmens:
   He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
   SBCL to bootstrap under Lispworks for Windows

@@ -564,22 +586,34 @@ Robert MacLachlan:
 Pierre Mai:
   He has continued to work on CMU CL since the SBCL fork, and also
   patched code to SBCL to enable dynamic loading of object files 
 Pierre Mai:
   He has continued to work on CMU CL since the SBCL fork, and also
   patched code to SBCL to enable dynamic loading of object files 

-  under OpenBSD.
+  under OpenBSD.  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X,
+  implementing the Lisp side of the PowerOpen ABI.

 
 Eric Marsden:
   Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported
 
 Eric Marsden:
   Some of his fixes to CMU CL since the SBCL fork have been ported

-  to SBCL.
+  to SBCL.  He also maintains the cl-benchmark package, which gives
+  us some idea of how our performance changes compared to earlier
+  releases and to other implementations.

 
 Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 
 Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 

+Brian Mastenbrook:
+  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.
 
 Gerd Moellman:
   He has made many cleanups and improvements, small and large, in
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
 
 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.
+  CMU CL (mostly in PCL), which we have gratefully ported to SBCL.  Of
+  particular note is his ctor MAKE-INSTANCE optimization, which is both
+  faster in the typical case than the old optimizations in PCL and
+  less buggy.

 
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
 
 William ("Bill") Newman:
   He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI

@@ -589,17 +623,38 @@ William ("Bill") Newman:
   updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 
   updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 

+Patrik Nordebo:
+  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X, finding solutions for
+  ABI and assembly syntax differences between Darwin and Linux.
+
+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:
 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 done a substantial
-  amount of work on 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.
 

+Nikodemus Siivola:
+  He provided build fixes, in particular to tame the SunOS toolchain,
+  and has fixed many (stream-related and other) bugs besides.
+
+Juho Snellman:
+  He provided several performance enhancements, including a better hash
+  function on strings, and removal of unneccessary bounds checks.
+

 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.

@@ -633,13 +688,16 @@ 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
 MNA  Martin Atzmueller

-DB   Daniel Barlow
+DB   Daniel Barlow (also "dan")

 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka
 DTC  Douglas Crosher
 APD  Alexey Dejneka

+PFD  Paul F. Dietz

 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 AL   Arthur Lemmens
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan
 NJF  Nathan Froyd
 AL   Arthur Lemmens
 RAM  Robert MacLachlan

+PRM  Pierre Mai

 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde
 WHN  William ("Bill") Newman
 CSR  Christophe Rhodes
 PVE  Peter Van Eynde