Re: Documenting what changed since 4.0 (gcj core libraries)

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi Gerald,

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:51 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Since GCC 4.1 is coming up soon, could going with your current patch,
> just adjusting the sorting order to the one used in the main part of 
> contrib.texi, and postponing the merger of the lists to a later point
> in time be a viable compromise?

OK. I'll commit the patch as attached (no changes from my last patch
except reordered the names on what I think are the last names) and
opened a bug report for merging the list of names.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26356

> > Yes, that was my plan. Mainly because for each GNU Classpath snapshot
> > this is how contributors are mentioned. And the main contributor list
> > doesn't contain what people worked on (and isn't as up to date...).
> > Maybe that should also be fixed "upstream". But correctly listing all
> > main contributions for everybody since 1998 is quite some work.
> 
> Hmm, I see where you're coming from, but having one list for every 
> release is something I'd really like us to avoid.  Perhaps avoiding
> that level of detail for the entries in contrib.tex would help making
> things easier?

Yes, you are right. That would make maintenance indeed easier. And in
the long run it is important that people contributed, not exactly what
they contributed, the precise details of their contribution are of
course also in the ChangeLog files. But for new releases it is nice to
explicitly tell who worked on what.

When we merge the name lists the descriptions should probably be
shortened. It is difficult to tell what precisely should be mentioned. I
really like making sure people are accurately credited for what they
worked on.

> >> Isn't "Kaffe" spelt with an extra e?
> > Nope. It is Kaffe (www.kaffe.org).
> 
> Oops, sorry.  That's my Austrian heritage, I guess. ;-)

Kaffe is the Swedish word for coffee (the project was started in
Stockholm a long long time ago).

> > I changed them all to bugfix. Although contrib.texi as a whole isn't
> > consistent and uses both with and without a space.
> 
> Do you want to change this throughout contrib.texi, or do you prefer to
> go ahead with your patch and leaving this to me?

For now I didn't touch anything other except the new part.

Cheers,

Mark

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- ChangeLog	(revision 111255)
+++ ChangeLog	(working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-02-18  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
+
+	* doc/contrib.texi (Contributors): Add classpath/libgcj hackers
+	who added new 4.1 features, bug fixes and integration support.
+
 2005-02-18  David Edelsohn  <edelsohn@gnu.org>
 
 	PR target/26350
Index: doc/contrib.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/contrib.texi	(revision 111255)
+++ doc/contrib.texi	(working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 @c Copyright (C) 1988,1989,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,
-@c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
 
@@ -1145,6 +1145,209 @@
 @end itemize
 
 
+The following people are recognized for their contributions of new
+features, bug reports, testing and integration of classpath/libgcj for
+GCC version 4.1:
+@itemize @bullet
+@item
+Lillian Angel for @code{JTree} implementation and lots Free Swing
+additions and bugfixes.
+
+@item
+Wolfgang Baer for @code{GapContent} bugfixes.
+
+@item
+Anthony Balkissoon for @code{JList}, Free Swing 1.5 updates and mouse event
+fixes, lots of Free Swing work including @code{JTable} editing.
+
+@item
+Stuart Ballard for RMI constant fixes.
+
+@item
+Goffredo Baroncelli for @code{HTTPURLConnection} fixes.
+
+@item
+Gary Benson for @code{MessageFormat} fixes.
+
+@item
+Daniel Bonniot for @code{Serialization} fixes.
+
+@item
+Chris Burdess for lots of gnu.xml and http protocol fixes, @code{StAX}
+and @code{DOM xml:id} support.
+
+@item
+Ka-Hing Cheung for @code{TreePath} and @code{TreeSelection} fixes.
+
+@item
+Archie Cobbs for build fixes, VM interface updates,
+@code{URLClassLoader} updates.
+
+@item
+Kelley Cook for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Martin Cordova for Suggestions for better @code{SocketTimeoutException}.
+
+@item
+David Daney for @code{BitSet} bugfixes, @code{HttpURLConnection}
+rewrite and improvements.
+
+@item
+Thomas Fitzsimmons for lots of upgrades to the gtk+ AWT and Cairo 2D
+support. Lots of imageio framework additions, lots of AWT and Free
+Swing bugfixes.
+
+@item
+Jeroen Frijters for @code{ClassLoader} and nio cleanups, serialization fixes,
+better @code{Proxy} support, bugfixes and IKVM integration.
+
+@item
+Santiago Gala for @code{AccessControlContext} fixes.
+
+@item
+Nicolas Geoffray for @code{VMClassLoader} and @code{AccessController}
+improvements.
+
+@item
+David Gilbert for @code{basic} and @code{metal} icon and plaf support
+and lots of documenting, Lots of Free Swing and metal theme
+additions. @code{MetalIconFactory} implementation.
+
+@item
+Anthony Green for @code{MIDI} framework, @code{ALSA} and @code{DSSI}
+providers.
+
+@item
+Andrew Haley for @code{Serialization} and @code{URLClassLoader} fixes,
+gcj build speedups.
+
+@item
+Kim Ho for @code{JFileChooser} implementation.
+
+@item
+Andrew John Hughes for @code{Locale} and net fixes, URI RFC2986
+updates, @code{Serialization} fixes, @code{Properties} XML support and
+generic branch work, VMIntegration guide update.
+
+@item
+Bastiaan Huisman for @code{TimeZone} bugfixing.
+
+@item
+Andreas Jaeger for mprec updates.
+
+@item
+Paul Jenner for better @option{-Werror} support.
+
+@item
+Ito Kazumitsu for @code{NetworkInterface} implementation and updates.
+
+@item
+Roman Kennke for @code{BoxLayout}, @code{GrayFilter} and
+@code{SplitPane}, plus bugfixes all over. Lots of Free Swing work
+including styled text.
+
+@item
+Simon Kitching for @code{String} cleanups and optimization suggestions.
+
+@item
+Michael Koch for configuration fixes, @code{Locale} updates, bug and
+build fixes.
+
+@item
+Guilhem Lavaux for configuration, thread and channel fixes and Kaffe
+integration. JCL native @code{Pointer} updates. Logger bugfixes.
+
+@item
+David Lichteblau for JCL support library global/local reference
+cleanups.
+
+@item
+Aaron Luchko for JDWP updates and documentation fixes.
+
+@item
+Ziga Mahkovec for @code{Graphics2D} upgraded to Cairo 0.5 and new regex
+features.
+
+@item
+Sven de Marothy for BMP imageio support, CSS and @code{TextLayout}
+fixes. @code{GtkImage} rewrite, 2D, awt, free swing and date/time fixes and
+implementing the Qt4 peers.
+
+@item
+Casey Marshall for crypto algorithm fixes, @code{FileChannel} lock,
+@code{SystemLogger} and @code{FileHandler} rotate implementations, NIO
+@code{FileChannel.map} support, security and policy updates.
+
+@item
+Bryce McKinlay for RMI work.
+
+@item
+Audrius Meskauskas for lots of Free Corba, RMI and HTML work plus
+testing and documenting.
+
+@item
+Kalle Olavi Niemitalo for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Rainer Orth for build fixes.
+
+@item
+Andrew Overholt for @code{File} locking fixes.
+
+@item
+Ingo Proetel for @code{Image}, @code{Logger} and @code{URLClassLoader}
+updates.
+
+@item
+Olga Rodimina for @code{MenuSelectionManager} implemenation.
+
+@item
+Jan Roehrich for @code{BasicTreeUI} and @code{JTree} fixes.
+
+@item
+Julian Scheid for documentation updates and gjdoc support.
+
+@item
+Christian Schlichtherle for zip fixes and cleanups.
+
+@item
+Robert Schuster for documentation updates and beans fixes,
+@code{TreeNode} enumerations and @code{ActionCommand} and various
+fixes, XML and URL, AWT and Free Swing bugfixes.
+
+@item
+Keith Seitz for lots of JDWP work.
+
+@item
+Christian Thalinger for 64-bit cleanups, Configuration and VM
+interface fixes and @code{CACAO} integration, @code{fdlibm} updates.
+
+@item
+Gael Thomas for @code{VMClassLoader} boot packages support sugestions.
+
+@item
+Andreas Tobler for Darwin and Solaris testing and fixing, @code{Qt4}
+support for Darwin/OS X, @code{Graphics2D} support, @code{gtk+}
+updates.
+
+@item
+Dalibor Topic for better @code{DEBUG} support, build cleanups and
+Kaffe integration. @code{Qt4} build infrastructure, @code{SHA1PRNG}
+and @code{GdkPixbugDecoder} updates.
+
+@item
+Tom Tromey for Eclipse integration, generics work, lots of bugfixes
+and gcj integration including coordinating The Big Merge.
+
+@item
+Mark Wielaard for bugfixes, packaging and release management,
+@code{Clipboard} implementation, system call interrupts and network
+timeouts and @code{GdkPixpufDecoder} fixes.
+
+@end itemize
+
+
 In addition to the above, all of which also contributed time and energy in
 testing GCC, we would like to thank the following for their contributions
 to testing: