(I seem to've screwed up during the checkin of 0.pre7.131 before, so

[sbcl.git] / CREDITS

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index adef704..71f44f7 100644 (file)
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ rewritten by Bill Chiles.
 The CMU CL garbage collector was credited to "Christopher Hoover,
 Rob MacLachlan, Dave McDonald, et al." in the CMU CL code/gc.lisp file,
 with some extra code for the MIPS port credited to Christopher Hoover
-alone.
+alone. The credits on the original "gc.c", "Stop and Copy GC based
+on Cheney's algorithm", said "written by Christopher Hoover".
 
 Guy Steele wrote the original character functions
        code/char.lisp
@@ -242,7 +243,8 @@ Also, Christopher Hoover and William Lott wrote compiler/generic/vm-macs.lisp
 to centralize information about machine-dependent macros and constants.
 
 Sean Hallgren is credited with most of the Alpha backend.  Julian
-Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/linux port.
+Dolby created the CMU CL Alpha/linux port. Douglas Crosher added
+complex-float support.
 
 The CMU CL machine-independent disassembler (compiler/disassem.lisp)
 was written by Miles Bader.
@@ -489,7 +491,8 @@ CREDITS SINCE THE RELEASE OF SBCL
 (Note: (1) This is probably incomplete, since there's no systematic
 procedure for updating it. (2) Some more details are available in the
 NEWS file, in the project's CVS change logs, and in the archives of
-the sbcl-devel mailing list.)
+the sbcl-devel mailing list. (3) In this, as in other parts of 
+SBCL, patches are welcome.)
 
 Martin Atzmueller:
   He reported many bugs, fixed many bugs, ported various fixes
@@ -501,12 +504,13 @@ Daniel Barlow:
   He contributed sblisp.lisp, a set of patches to make SBCL
   play nicely with ILISP. (Those patches have since disappeared from the
   SBCL distribution because ILISP has since been patched to play nicely
-  with SBCL.) He also figured out how to get the CMU CL dynamic object
-  file loading code to work under SBCL. He ported CMU CL's Alpha
-  port to SBCL. He wrote code (e.g. grovel_headers.c and
+  with SBCL.) 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. 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. 
+  keep ports synchronized. He's also provided support for SBCL (as
+  well as for free Common Lisp in general) through his CLiki website.
 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
@@ -519,7 +523,17 @@ Douglas Crosher:
   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
+  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and 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.
+
+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, 
@@ -528,11 +542,18 @@ Robert MacLachlan:
   porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
 
 Bill Newman:
-  He continued to work on SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
+  He continued to maintain SBCL after the fork, increasing ANSI
   compliance, fixing bugs, regularizing the internals of the
   system, deleting unused extensions, improving performance in 
   some areas (especially sequence functions and non-simple vectors),
-  and updating documentation.
+  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
@@ -555,3 +576,16 @@ Raymond Wiker:
   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