Meet the CVS developers

Here is a list of the CVS developers and an attempt to briefly summarize what they have contributed to CVS (either directly or by cleaning up and checking in changes from other people). For more detailed records you will want to look at the ChangeLog files, and other authorship records in the CVS source distribution.

Current CVS developers

Ian Lance Taylor

a vast number of bug-fixes and performance enhancements, including much of the RCS library, GSS-API, better networking/buffering code, and more, 1993-present.

Jim Kingdon

many bug-fixes and new features, including code cleanups, testsuite enhancements, PreservePermissions, much of the RCS library, case-insensitivity code for Windows, binary file work, documentation fixes, and much more, 1993-present. Coordinated the CVS 1.5 and 1.7 releases.

Noel Cragg

various features and fixes, including work on checkouts (modules, absolute pathnames, RELATIVE_REPOS, &c), Windows NT local, and more, 1995-present. Coordinated the CVS 1.10 release.

Jim Meyering

fair number of bugfixes, code cleanups, 1995-present.

Larry Jones

fair number of bugfixes, documentation, 1995-present.

Norbert Kiesel

fair number of bugfixes, code cleanups, CVSUMASK feature, 1995-present.

Ben Lee

VMS client work, 1996. Coordinated the CVS 1.8 release.

Del Delson

taginfo and safe_location, 1995.

Peter Wemm

SERVER_FLOWCONTROL, fixes, 1995-1996.

Paul Eggert

compatibility with RCS, time handling, fixes, 1991-1997.

Greg A. Woods

bugfixes, code cleanups, documentation fixes, 1995-1997.

Roland McGrath

a few fixes, 1995.

Tom Tromey

(don't think he has actually checked anything in).

Nate Williams

(don't think he has actually checked anything in).

Former CVS developers

JT Conklin

performance improvements and code cleanups, 1994-1996. Removed from the CVS developers by agreement of the remaining developers, as email has started bounced and we heard he has dropped out of free software projects (Aug 1998).

Sam Tardieu

a few bugfixes from 1995, 1996, and 1998. Resigned, Aug 1998.

Jim Blandy

Windows client, fixes, 1995-1996. Resigned, Oct 1997.

Karl Fogel

initial pserver implementation, OS/2 work, documentation, 1995-1996. Coordinated the CVS 1.6 release. Resigned, 1996.

Note that this page doesn't include CVS maintainers from before the start of the current Developer system around 1995. What records there are of that are in the ChangeLog and other files in the CVS source distribution.