many patches which were directly applicable to SBCL. Notable examples
include fixes for various compiler bugs, and a generalization
of the type system's handling of the CONS type to allow ANSI-style
- (CONS FOO BAR) types.
+ (CONS FOO BAR) types.
Alexey Dejneka:
He has fixed many bugs in SBCL. There's no single summary theme, but
public-spiritedness, fixing bugs as they show up in sbcl-devel or as
archived in the BUGS file.
+Nathan Froyd:
+ He has reported bugs and ported fixes from CMU CL. He has fixed
+
Robert MacLachlan:
He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to,
the CMU CL project. Some of these fixes, especially for compiler
updating documentation, and even, for better or worse, getting
rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
+Christophe Rhodes:
+ He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the
+ SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by
+ it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
+ bug fixes.
+
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
CMU CL support for FreeBSD and updating it for the changes made
from FreeBSD version 3 to FreeBSD version 4. He also ported the
CMU CL extension RUN-PROGRAM, and related code, to SBCL.
+
+
+INITIALS GLOSSARY (helpful when reading comments, commit notes, etc.)
+
+MNA Martin Atzmueller
+DB Daniel Barlow
+DTC Douglas Crosher
+APD Alexey Dejneka
+NJF Nathan Froyd
+RAM Robert MacLachlan
+WHN William ("Bill") Newman
+CSR Christophe Rhodes
+PVE Peter Van Eynde