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PATCH: index.html, steering.html


This makes the main page a bit shorter and also fixes some slightly
incorrect historical information:

 Move some details on the steering committee from the main page to the
 specific steering committee page.  Try to make the presentation of our
 history a bit more precise.

Committed.

Gerald

Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.358
diff -u -3 -p -r1.358 index.html
--- index.html	5 Feb 2003 12:08:21 -0000	1.358
+++ index.html	10 Feb 2003 11:57:53 -0000
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ languages (<a href="libstdc++/">libstdc+

 <p>Major decisions about GCC are made by the <a href="steering.html">
 steering committee</a>, guided by the <a href="gccmission.html">
-mission statement</a>.  That group began as the egcs steering
-committee and in April 1999 was appointed by the FSF as the official
-GNU maintainer for GCC.</p>
+mission statement</a>.</p>

 <p>We encourage everyone to <a href="contribute.html">contribute changes</a>
 and help testing GCC, and we provide access to our development sources with
Index: steering.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/steering.html,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -3 -p -r1.17 steering.html
--- steering.html	23 Jan 2002 15:42:21 -0000	1.17
+++ steering.html	10 Feb 2003 11:57:53 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

 <h1>GCC steering committee</h1>

-<p>The GCC steering committee was founded in 1998 with the intent
+<p>The steering committee was founded in 1998 with the intent
 of preventing any particular individual, group or organization from
 getting control over the project. Its primary purpose is to make major
 decisions in the best interests of the GCC project and to ensure that
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ the project adheres to its fundamental p
 <a href="gccmission.html">mission statement</a>.  [see the original
 announcement below].</p>

+<p>In April 1999 the steering commitee was appointed by the FSF as the
+official GNU maintainer for GCC and changed its name to GCC steering
+committee.</p>
+
 <h2>GCC steering committee members</h2>

-At the moment the steering committee has 14 members. The best place to
-reach them is the gcc <a href="lists.html">mailinglist</a>.
+<p>At the moment the steering committee has 14 members. The best place to
+reach them is the gcc <a href="lists.html">mailinglist</a>.</p>

 <ul>
 <li>Per Bothner (Brainfood Inc)</li>
@@ -50,8 +54,8 @@ developers, kernel hackers), not compani
 <h2>The original announcement from November 10, 1998:</h2>

 <pre>
-From its initial conception, the GCC project (formerly known as the EGCS
-project) has strived to organize itself in a manner which prevents any
+From its initial conception, the egcs project [now GCC]
+has strived to organize itself in a manner which prevents any
 particular individual or company from having control over the project.

 To that end, when the project was formed several individuals were contacted


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