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
+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.
-Miles Egan
+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
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 found a way to
- overcome binary compatibility issues between different versions of
- dlcompat on Darwin.
+ 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
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.
+
Brian Spilsbury:
He wrote Unicode-capable versions of SBCL's character, string, and
stream types and operations on them.
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
+PFD Paul F. Dietz
NJF Nathan Froyd
AL Arthur Lemmens
RAM Robert MacLachlan
CSR Christophe Rhodes
PVE Peter Van Eynde
PW Paul Werkowski
-PFD Paul F. Dietz