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Re: RFC: manual/contrib.texi


On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
> On 05/19/2012 12:47 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>>>
>>> Some of the mentioned contributions might not be part of the current
>>> glibc,
>>> still we would like to mention those that contributed.
>>
>>
>> Something like that is certainly fine. ?I guess I'd phrase it like this:
>>
>> This appreciation persists even when some particular work is no longer
>> part
>> of @theglibc{}. ?Some of the contributions listed here have been removed
>> entirely in the years since the work was done. ?While the code will always
>> continue to change and no part of it lasts forever, the gratitude toward
>> all contributors, past and present, is eternal.
>
>
> I like it. I've added it.
>
> I'm still struggling how to mark those removed contributions - or whether
> the above paragraph is enough.
>
>
> Brendan Kehoe for contributing the port to the MIPS DECStation running
> Ultrix 4 (@code{mips-dec-ultrix4}) and the port to the DEC Alpha
> running OSF/1 (@code{alpha-dec-osf1}).
>
> We could add behind the port something like "(removed in the meantime)" or
> "(not anymore part of @theglibc)".
>
> Any good ideas?

Add Roland's paragraph, which I really like and find wonderfully elegant.

There is no need to add "(not anymore part of ..."

Contributions should get added to this list, and never removed.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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