Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 16:33:33 +0000 (UTC) From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53744 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors Message-ID: <202001031633.003GXX5g063745@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bcr Date: Fri Jan 3 16:33:32 2020 New Revision: 53744 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53744 Log: Add an "ln memoriam" entry for Bruce D. Evans (bde@). The text was provided by phk@, with only minor changes by me. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Fri Jan 3 07:19:26 2020 (r53743) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Fri Jan 3 16:33:32 2020 (r53744) @@ -4,6 +4,51 @@ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> <listitem> + <para>Bruce D. Evans (1991 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para> + + <para>Bruce was a programming giant who made FreeBSD his + home.</para> + + <para>Back before FreeBSD and Linux there was Minix, a toy "unix" + written by Andy Tannenbaum, released in 1987, sold with complete + sources on three floppy disks, for $99.</para> + + <para>Bruce ported Minix to the i386 around 1989.</para> + + <para>Linus Torvalds used Minix/386 to develop his own kernel, and + Bruce was the first person he thanked in the + release-announcement.</para> + + <para>When Bill Jolitz released 386BSD 0.1 in 1992, Bruce was + listed as a contributor.</para> + + <para>Bruce co-founded the FreeBSD project, and served on core.0, + but he was never partisan, and over the years many other + projects have benefitted from his patches, advice and + wisdom.</para> + + <para>Code reviews from Bruce came in three flavours, "mild", + "brucified" and "brucifiction", but they were never personal: It + was always only about the code, the mistakes, the sloppy + thinking, the missing historical context, the ambiguous + standards - and the style(9) transgressions.</para> + + <para>Because Bruce gave more code reviews than anybody else in + the history of the FreeBSD project, the commit logs hide the + true scale of his impact until you pay attention to + "Submitted by", "Reviewed by" and "Pointed out by".</para> + + <para>Being hard of hearing, Bruce did not attend + conferences.</para> + + <para>The notable exception was the 1999 BSDcon in California, + where his core team colleagues greeted him with "We're not + worthy!" in Wayne's World fashion.</para> + + <para>Twenty years later we're still not.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para> <para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a
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