FYI, I was just checking out the contributors page and noticed that he's listed under Past Contributors.
http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> Anyone feels in mood for a comment? > > > > > I see our mailing list archives for pgsql-hackers only go back to > > > 1997, so it's hard to track down what was going on in 1996. But as > > > for why no one remembers the guy, it's probably because we've had > > > nearly 100% churn in the set of people who are involved. Tom Lane > > > isn't mentioned in the commit log until 1998. We could see if Bruce > > > or Marc remember him, but just to put this in perspective, the guy > > > made 6 commits out of almost 900 that year. > > > > According to the logs there was a seventh patch committed for him by > > Marc, but still: seven patches, touching only libpq and psql (not by any > > means as "internal" as this blogger thinks), committed over a period of > > about a month. That's not exactly a large or sustained contribution. > > Is it surprising that everyone had forgotten it a few years later? > > > > > I don't think we had the > > > same standards for granting commit access back then that we do now. > > > > Yeah, the only thing that's even mildly surprising is that he seems to > > have been given commit privileges after only one patch. However, > > there's an indication in one of the commit messages that he'd previously > > contributed to the code while Berkeley had it: > > > > 1996-07-25 02:46 julian > > > > * src/bin/psql/psql.c: Large re-write/enhancement. In pg-101 Jolly > > only included a smaller part of my (proff) patch. This is the rest > > of it, with a few, mainly aesthetic changes. I've removed a lot of > > redundency from the original code, added support for the new > > PQprint() routines in libpq, expanded tables, and a few generally > > nifty ways of massaging data in and out of the backend. Still needs > > some good stress testing. > > > > so maybe that history had something to do with it. > > The spring/summer of 1996 was a time when we were trying to gather all > the scattered work of people who had created patches to Postgres95 but > had not been integrated by Jolly. Seems Julian had been in that group > so his patches were quickly applied. If he had asked for commit, I > would have given it to him because he had a history of contributing to > the project (which I could not confirm). > > FYI, I do think I have an archive of much of the pg95-...@ki.net on a > DAT tape in my basement, and I have an unpowered computer down there > with a DAT tape drive ... hmmm. > > -- > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com > > + It's impossible for everything to be true. + > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list (pgsql-advoc...@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy >
