Changes between Version 66 and Version 67 of Contributors

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12/14/12 05:38:00 (5 months ago)

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simonpj

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Contributors

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 = The GHC Team =
 
-This page outlines contributors to GHC. The success of GHC has a lot
-to do with the large group of highly talented people who contribute to
-it.
-
-The page also document who is currently responsible for what in the
-GHC code base. The idea being that ideally all parts of GHC should
-have someone who claims responsibility for it.
-
-== Current Owners / Maintainers ==
-
- * '''[mailto:chak@cse.unsw.edu.au Manuel Chakravarty]'''
-   * DPH vectoriser
-   * Type families
-   * OS X support
-
- * '''[mailto:benl@ouroborus.net Ben Lippmeier]'''
-   * native code generator, register allocation
-   * DPH libraries
-
- * '''[mailto:igloo@earth.li Ian Lynagh]'''
-   * GHC support engineer
-   * build system, release process
-
- * '''[mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com Simon Marlow]'''
-   * '''GHC Tsar'''
-   * Everything, RTS, Cmm !CodeGen, x86_64 port, SMP support
-   * '''Phasing out as changing jobs'''
-
- * '''[mailto:bos@serpentine.com Bryan O'Sullivan]'''
-   * Performance Tsar
-
- * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
-   * '''GHC Tsar'''
-   * Everything, Type system, Simplifier, Cmm !CodeGen
-   * '''Note:''' Principle job is research, so more an advisor in the sense that can't spend time on pure engineering efforts.
-
- * '''[mailto:dave.terei@gmail.com David Terei]'''
-   * Performance Tsar
-   * LLVM, Safe Haskell
-
- * '''[mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com Johan Tibell]'''
-   * Performance Tsar
-   * IO Manager
-
-== Directory to Maintainer Mapping ==
-
-'''Compiler (i.e., GHC proper)'''
- * basicTypes/ -- All
- * cmm/        -- None yet
- * codeGen/    -- Simon Marlow (phasing out)
- * coreSyn/    -- All
- * deSugar/    -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * ghci/       -- None yet
- * hsSyn/      -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * iface/      -- All
- * llvmGen/    -- David Terei
- * main/       -- Ian Lynagh
- * nativeGen/  -- Ben Lippmeier
- * parser/     -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * prelude/    -- None yet
- * profiling/  -- None yet
- * rename/     -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * simplCore/  -- None yet
- * simplStg/   -- None yet
- * specialise/ -- None yet
- * stgSyn/     -- None yet
- * stranal/    -- None yet
- * typecheck/  -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * types/      -- Simon Peyton Jones
- * utils/      -- All
- * vectorise/  -- Manuel Chakravarty
-
-'''Documentation'''
- * doc/ -- All
-
-'''Executables / Drivers'''
- * driver/
- * ghc/
-
-'''Run-time System'''
- * includes/
- * rts/
-
-'''Testing & Benchmarking'''
- * nofib/ -- All
- * testsuite/ -- All
-
-'''Dependencies (Ian Lynagh)'''
- * libffi/
- * libraries/
-
-'''Build System (Ian Lynagh)'''
- * distrib/
- * ghc-tarballs/
- * mk/
- * rules/
- * utils/
-
-== Porters/Packagers (no particular order) ==
+GHC has an enormous "surface area", and has grown way beyond the
+capacity of any individual, or even research group, to maintain and
+develop.  Its continued success is built on the active contributions
+of a large group of highly talented people, who take responsiblity 
+for significant parts of the system.  This page summarises who does
+what.
+
+== What it means to "own" part of GHC ==
+
+What does it mean to be the "ownwer" of a chunk of GHC, say X?
+
+ * Being the owner of a chunk of GHC is a public service.  Everyone else gives the owner lots of kudos for looking after X on our behalf.
+ * The owner is the first port of call for guidance about how X works.
+ * If you want to work on X, it makes sense to talk to the owner first, to see what he or she is planning, and to debate the design.
+ * The owner feels a sense of ownership. That means taking responsibility for keeping it clean and beautiful, and refactoring when necessary.
+ * The owner can't be expected to fix every buglet, but feels a sense of responsbility to make sure that serious bugs are fixed.
+
+Ownership has the flavour of "first among equals" rather than "exclusive control":
+ * It does not mean that everyone else can relax and say "oh Fred is dealing with X".  Fred needs help!
+ * It does not mean that no changes can happen to X without the owner's say-so, most especially if the owner becomes hard to contact.
+ 
+
+== Current Owners ==
+
+This section lists the current owners of various parts of GHC.  If
+you'd like to take responsibility for something, tell us (on the
+`ghc-devs` list). Ideally all parts of GHC should have someone who
+claims responsibility for it.  Although some of these parts are
+cross-cutting concerns, we also list the directories in the GHC source
+tree that are most directly implicated.
+
+ * Overall guidance and advice (the GHC Tsars)
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]''', '''[mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com Simon Marlow]'''
+
+ * Build system, release process.
+   * '''[mailto:ian@well-typed.com Ian Lynagh]'''
+   * Directories: `mk/`, `distrib/, `ghc-tarballs/, `rules/`, `utils/`, `compiler/main`
+ 
+ * Foreign function interface (FFI)
+   * '''[mailto:ian@well-typed.com Ian Lynagh]'''
+   * Directories: `libffi/`
+
+ * The main `HsSyn` data type
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/hsSyn`
+
+ * Renamer
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/rename`
+
+ * Type inference and interface files
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/types`, `compiler/typecheck`, `compiler/iface`
+   
+ * Core, System FC, Simplifier and other optimisations on Core
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/coreSyn`, `compiler/deSugar`, `compiler/simplCore`, `compiler/specialise`, `compiler/stranal`
+
+ * Native code generator, register allocation
+   * '''[mailto:benl@ouroborus.net Ben Lippmeier]''', '''[mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com Simon Marlow]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/nativeGen`
+
+ * LLVM code generation
+   * '''[mailto:dave.terei@gmail.com David Terei]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/llvmGen`
+
+ * Runtime system, SMP support
+   * '''[mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com Simon Marlow]'''
+   * Directories: `rts/`, `includes/`
+
+ * GHCi, and debugger
+   * Needs love
+   * Directories: `compiler/ghci`, `ghc/`, `driver/`.
+
+ * Template Haskell
+   * '''[mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com Simon Peyton Jones]'''
+   * Directories: `libraries/template-haskell`, plus bits scattered over `compiler/`
+
+ * Data Parallel Haskell
+   * '''[mailto:chak@cse.unsw.edu.au Manuel Chakravarty]''', '''[mailto:benl@ouroborus.net Ben Lippmeier]'''
+   * Directories: `compiler/vectorise`
+
+ * Safe Haskell
+   * '''[mailto:dave.terei@gmail.com David Terei]'''
+
+ * Performance Tsars
+   * '''[mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com Johan Tibell]''', '''[mailto:dave.terei@gmail.com David Terei]''', '''[mailto:bos@serpentine.com Bryan O'Sullivan]'''
+   * Directories: `nofib/`
+
+Cross-cutting compiler directories: `parser/`, `prelude/`, `profiling/`, `utils/`.
+
+=== Libraries ===
+
+ * IO Manager
+   * '''[mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com Johan Tibell]'''
+
+
+ * OS X support
+
+=== Platforms ===
 
 The following table lists the people who have generously agreed to be responsible for the GHC port to a particular platform, or to produce binary packages for a certain platform.
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 wonderful ways:
 
- * [mailto:ka2_mail@yahoo.com Krasimir Angelov]
- * [mailto:lennart@augustsson.net Lennart Augustsson] (including work on many core libraries, originally for hbc)
- * [mailto:jeanphilippe.bernardy@gmail.com Jean-Philippe Bernardy] (Maintenance of Data.*Map/*Set libraries)
- * [http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~berthold Jost Berthold] (Parallel Haskell: Eden)
- * [mailto:d00bring@dtek.chalmers.se Bjorn Bringert]
- * Sebastien Carlier
- * [mailto:amc4@doc.ic.ac.uk Andrew Cheadle]
- * [http://catamorphism.org/ Tim Chevalier] (External Core, strictness analysis, ticky-ticky profiling)
- * [mailto:duncan.coutts@well-typed.com Duncan Coutts] (parallel profiling, package system)
- * [http://www.csee.ogi.edu/~diatchki Iavor S Diatchki] ('monadLib' library)
- * [mailto:sof@galois.com Sigbjorn Finne]
- * [mailto:andygill@ku.edu Andy Gill] (Haskell Program Coverage)
- * Kevin Glynn
- * [mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org John Goerzen]
- * Cordy Hall
- * Kevin Hammond
- * [mailto:tharris@microsoft.com Tim Harris] (Transactional memory, concurrency)
- * [mailto:lemmih@gmail.com David Himmelstrup] (GHC developer)
- * [mailto:mnislaih@gmail.com José Iborra] (GHCi Debugger)
- * [mailto:ijones@syntaxpolice.org Isaac Jones] (Cabal, libraries)
- * [mailto:Ralf.Laemmel@cwi.nl Ralf Laemmel]
- * [mailto:rl@cse.unsw.edu.au Roman Leshchinskiy]
- * [mailto:andres@cs.uu.nl Andres Loeh]
- * [mailto:hwloidl@tcs.ifi.lmu.de Hans Wolfgang Loidl]
- * John Launchbury
- * [mailto:desrt@desrt.ca Ryan Lortie] (PowerPC Linux port, packages)
- * Jim Mattson
- * [mailto:john@repetae.net John Meacham]
- * Darren Moffat
- * [mailto:njn25@cam.ac.uk Nick Nethercote]
- * Thomas Nordin
- * [mailto:Sven.Panne@aedion.de Sven Panne]
- * Sungwoo Park
- * Will Partain
- * [mailto:ross@soi.city.ac.uk Ross Paterson]
- * Juan Quintela
- * [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/nr Norman Ramsey] (a little refactoring in the back end)
- * Alastair Reid
- * [mailto:br276@cl.cam.ac.uk Ben Rudiak-Gould]
- * Patrick Sansom
- * André Santos
- * [mailto:sseefried@cse.unsw.edu.au Sean Seefried] (Plug-in optimisations (in pluggable-branch))
- * [mailto:jseward@acm.org Julian Seward]
- * [mailto:dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk Dominic Steinitz] (Cryptographic library)
- * [mailto:dons@cse.unsw.edu.au Don Stewart] (OpenBSD support)
- * [mailto:vs@foldr.org Volker Stolz]
- * [mailto:josefs@cs.chalmers.se Josef Svenningsson]
- * [mailto:audreyt@audreyt.org Audrey Tang] (Perl-related tools (ghc-asm, ghc-split), AIX port)
- * [mailto:dinko.tenev@gmail.com Dinko Tenev]
- * [mailto:wolfgang.thaller@gmx.net Wolfgang Thaller] (Darwin/Mac OS X ports, position-independent code generation)
- * [mailto:mthomas@gil.com.au Mike Thomas]
- * Reuben Thomas
- * [mailto:cdt25@cam.ac.uk Christopher D. Thompson-Walsh]
- * [mailto:dpt@exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu Dylan Thurston]
- * Phil Trinder
- * [mailto:tullsen@galois.com Mark Tullsen]
- * David N Turner
- * Philip Wadler
- * [mailto:davve@dtek.chalmers.se David Waern] (Haddock comment support)
- * [mailto:Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk Malcolm Wallace]
- * Michael Weber
- * [mailto:ashley@semantic.org Ashley Yakeley] (Time library)
- * [mailto:nx200@cam.ac.uk N. Xu]
+[mailto:ka2_mail@yahoo.com Krasimir Angelov],
+[mailto:lennart@augustsson.net Lennart Augustsson] (including work on many core libraries, originally for hbc),
+[mailto:jeanphilippe.bernardy@gmail.com Jean-Philippe Bernardy] (Maintenance of Data.*Map/*Set libraries),
+[http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~berthold Jost Berthold] (Parallel Haskell: Eden),
+[mailto:d00bring@dtek.chalmers.se Bjorn Bringert],
+Sebastien Carlier,
+[mailto:amc4@doc.ic.ac.uk Andrew Cheadle],
+[http://catamorphism.org/ Tim Chevalier] (External Core, strictness analysis, ticky-ticky profiling),
+[mailto:duncan.coutts@well-typed.com Duncan Coutts] (parallel profiling, package system),
+[http://www.csee.ogi.edu/~diatchki Iavor S Diatchki] ('monadLib' library),
+[mailto:sof@galois.com Sigbjorn Finne],
+[mailto:andygill@ku.edu Andy Gill] (Haskell Program Coverage),
+Kevin Glynn,
+[mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org John Goerzen],
+Cordy Hall,
+Kevin Hammond,
+[mailto:tharris@microsoft.com Tim Harris] (Transactional memory, concurrency),
+[mailto:lemmih@gmail.com David Himmelstrup] (GHC developer),
+[mailto:mnislaih@gmail.com José Iborra] (GHCi Debugger),
+[mailto:ijones@syntaxpolice.org Isaac Jones] (Cabal, libraries),
+[mailto:Ralf.Laemmel@cwi.nl Ralf Laemmel],
+[mailto:rl@cse.unsw.edu.au Roman Leshchinskiy],
+[mailto:andres@cs.uu.nl Andres Loeh],
+[mailto:hwloidl@tcs.ifi.lmu.de Hans Wolfgang Loidl],
+John Launchbury,
+[mailto:desrt@desrt.ca Ryan Lortie] (PowerPC Linux port, packages),
+Jim Mattson,
+[mailto:john@repetae.net John Meacham],
+Darren Moffat,
+[mailto:njn25@cam.ac.uk Nick Nethercote],
+Thomas Nordin,
+[mailto:Sven.Panne@aedion.de Sven Panne],
+Sungwoo Park,
+Will Partain,
+[mailto:ross@soi.city.ac.uk Ross Paterson],
+Juan Quintela,
+[http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/nr Norman Ramsey] (a little refactoring in the back end),
+Alastair Reid,
+[mailto:br276@cl.cam.ac.uk Ben Rudiak-Gould],
+Patrick Sansom,
+André Santos,
+[mailto:sseefried@cse.unsw.edu.au Sean Seefried] (Plug-in optimisations (in pluggable-branch)),
+[mailto:jseward@acm.org Julian Seward],
+[mailto:dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk Dominic Steinitz] (Cryptographic library),
+[mailto:dons@cse.unsw.edu.au Don Stewart] (OpenBSD support),
+[mailto:vs@foldr.org Volker Stolz],
+[mailto:josefs@cs.chalmers.se Josef Svenningsson],
+[mailto:audreyt@audreyt.org Audrey Tang] (Perl-related tools (ghc-asm, ghc-split), AIX port),
+[mailto:dinko.tenev@gmail.com Dinko Tenev],
+[mailto:wolfgang.thaller@gmx.net Wolfgang Thaller] (Darwin/Mac OS X ports, position-independent code generation),
+[mailto:mthomas@gil.com.au Mike Thomas],
+Reuben Thomas,
+[mailto:cdt25@cam.ac.uk Christopher D. Thompson-Walsh],
+[mailto:dpt@exoskeleton.math.harvard.edu Dylan Thurston],
+Phil Trinder,
+[mailto:tullsen@galois.com Mark Tullsen],
+David N Turner,
+Philip Wadler,
+[mailto:davve@dtek.chalmers.se David Waern] (Haddock comment support),
+[mailto:Malcolm.Wallace@cs.york.ac.uk Malcolm Wallace],
+Michael Weber,
+[mailto:ashley@semantic.org Ashley Yakeley] (Time library),
+[mailto:nx200@cam.ac.uk N. Xu].