RFC: manual/contrib.texi

[Andreas Jaeger]

On 05/19/2012 08:19 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 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.

So do I - and did already.

> There is no need to add "(not anymore part of ..."
>
> Contributions should get added to this list, and never removed.

I just send v3 of the document. If we don't mark contributions as 
removed, then I've done what I wanted to do for now and now need help on 
my English from native speakers.

But we can also commit it first - what works best?

Andreas
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