diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml index d016638c8b..cb5064aa5c 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml @@ -3,6 +3,51 @@ + + Bruce D. Evans (1991 - 2019; RIP 2019) + + Bruce was a programming giant who made FreeBSD his + home. + + 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. + + Bruce ported Minix to the i386 around 1989. + + Linus Torvalds used Minix/386 to develop his own kernel, and + Bruce was the first person he thanked in the + release-announcement. + + When Bill Jolitz released 386BSD 0.1 in 1992, Bruce was + listed as a contributor. + + 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. + + 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. + + 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". + + Being hard of hearing, Bruce did not attend + conferences. + + 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. + + Twenty years later we're still not. + + Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)