Volunteer needed (updating AUTHORS etc.)

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Sep 23 08:52:27 PDT 2005


Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> The task basically amounts to: for each module in the modular tree, find 
> out by looking
> at the corresponding part of the monolithic tree:
> 
>    - Who wrote the code originally? List those people and companies in 
> the AUTHORS file

Unfortunately, I don't think we have the original pre-X11R6.7 RCS histories
anymore, so have to rely on comments in source code & man pages for those.
For changes that were originally made at XFree86, checking the XFree86
ChangeLogs/CVS trees is helpful for determining who to credit.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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