svn commit: r53744 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors

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
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--- 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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