At Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:55:56 -0500,
Ken Causey wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 16:26 -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> > Thank you, Ken,
> > 
> > > I'm not sure what sort of detail you are looking for.  If you mean the
> > > sort of textual information you might find in a changeset preamble you
> > > might be able to find that information in the MC repository, hopefully
> > > including a reference to a Mantis report with further information.  Go
> > > to http://source.squeakfoundation.org/39a.html and click on Versions and
> > > search for the specific version you want to examine, then look at the
> > > details, you can even browse the code as of that version if you
> > > want.
> > 
> >   The detail I'm looking for is to make the mapping from the author
> > initials to the authors full name.  I don't mind to look at the
> > textual information in the preamble, but it is hard to find which one
> > contains the method and the version in question.
> > 
> > 
> >   I managed to fill most of the '?'  marks on:
> > 
> > http://www.netjam.org/squeak/contributors/missingSignatories
> > 
> > but not the 3.9 era contributors.  How would you find who 'tp' was,
> > for example? 
> > 
> >   (How about:
> > 
> > 'ASF', 'edt', 'EP', 'EW', 'm', 'NDCC', 'sk', 'YE'?
> 
> I can sort of help regarding 'YE'.

  The question is still about "how to find" such a change.

> I ran into those initials when
> planning to export SkipList and license it as MIT.  I emailed all of the
> other authors of SkipList I could find and in the process asked if
> anyone recognized those initials.  Stephane Ducasse replied (in the
> context of SkipList): "It was one of my student and I forgot to remove
> his initial when I  rewrote all his tests."  I'm not sure I really
> understand the relevance of this response but I have not as yet
> revisited it since I have not heard from a much more relevant
> contributor, Scott A. Crosby (SAC).  I don't suppose he has responded
> with a signature since I last checked?

  Hmm, I wonder why the version in the OLPC image is older and all
with Leandro's initials...

-- Yoshiki