s11n contributors

James Ingraham

Thu, 18 May 2007 07:10:19 GMT

James provided two fixes for building s11n on QNX with gcc 3.3.x.

Rattlemouse

Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:28:31 GMT

Rattlemouse, from Russia, reported a memory leak in 1.2.2, leading to two important fixes in 1.2.3 and the (re)addition of unit tests to the source tree.

Pete Harlow

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:10:19 GMT

Pete Harlow did an absolutely amazing job of porting the 1.2.x library manual from Lyx to OpenDocument Format (ODF). The plan is to use ODF as the master document format going forward.

Ashran

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:13:36 GMT

Ashran, of www.hackersquest.org, sat down with me and ported s11n 1.1.2 to Windows, using XP and MS Dev Studio 2003 and 2005 Beta 1. This is a major milestone for the project.

Fabio Picciani

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:37:47 GMT

Fabio contributed the "fred" mascot which sometimes appears on the s11n site. Need a flamboyant Italian with a strong sense of Fashion and a good eye for colors? Visit www.picciani.de.

Meyers, Alexandrescu, Sutter, and Josuttis

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:27:09 GMT

No, of course these demi-gods didn't contribute directly, but their collective works have been instrumental in developing s11n:
Alexandrescu's Modern C++ Design is essential reading for fans of C++ templates.
Meyers' "Effective" series is always good for practical day-to-day guidance.
Josuttis' "C++ Templates" was instrumental in learning enough about template specializations to write s11n the way i wanted to.
Herb Sutter's "What's in a Class?" article caused me to rethink and rewrite lots of s11n's early code.

martin f. "madduck" krafft

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:23:16 GMT

martin is a continuing feedbacker on libs11n and the software developed around this project. His ability to always come up with a strong flip-side argument for nearly any proposal always gives me new things to think about. He originally came aboard during an attempt to get 0.8.x into the Debian tree.

Gregor Jehle

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:20:11 GMT

Gregor reported compile problems on AMD64 platforms and allowed me ssh access to his box to fix them. Unfortunately, his box was so fast that 50k of error text would fly by before Ctrl-C would respond over my 56k modem line ;).

Christian Prochnow

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:18:52 GMT

Project lead of the P::Classes project, Christian allows me to port s11n into their 2.x tree, which is a great opportunity for bug-finding and cleanups.

Anders Hedstroem

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:18:01 GMT

Anders wrote the MySQL library which is used by the mysql_serializer. He didn't write it for s11n, but he did accept some patches back into his mainstream release.

Max Hofer

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:16:56 GMT

Max's feedback about the sucky compile times prompted a lot of experimentation to cut compile times down. The 14x increase he reported when using s11n has been cut considerably since then (summer of 2004).

Ton Oguara

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:15:14 GMT

Ton's feedback on version 0.6 was the major driver behind the 0.6-to-0.7 rearchitecting.

Marshall Cline

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:14:18 GMT

Marshall, of C++ FAQ fame helped to correct documentation errors regarding cycles, graphs, and trees.

Roger Leigh

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:13:11 GMT

Roger introduced me to libltdl, allowing us to add more varied DLL loading options to s11n's classloader.

Gary Boone

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:12:33 GMT

Gary is one of s11n's earliest adopters, contributed to the documentation, and was instrumental in spurring on the 0.7-to-0.8 rewrite.

Tom of comp.lang.c++

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:10:14 GMT

Provided a clever fix for an annoying "interface bug" in the classloader library.

Mike Radford

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:09:46 GMT

Fixed several typename problems related to moving to gcc 3.4, and allowed me ssh access to his box to fix the rest. The 1.0.1 release was made because of Mike's work.

Andreas Jochens

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:08:54 GMT

Submitted several patches for s11n 0.9.x for compiling under gcc 3.4.

Patrick Lin

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:08:17 GMT

First caught a long-standing compile bug brought on by a typo in some template code. He was then the first to demonstrate and help
localize a major list deserialization bug (dubbed "Patrick's Bug"),
which was fixed in 0.9.17.

Steve Madere

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:06:59 GMT

Steve suggesting adding unit tests to the 0.9.x tree. Within an hour of doing so, two significant bugs were found and fixed. He also made a very generous donation via the SourceForge/PayPal donations system.

Bonnie and David Pickartz

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:02:15 GMT

My mother and stepfather made a huge donation to this project in the summer of 2004, so that i could go on working on it without having to find a full-time job to support myself. While i did end up going back to work in August 2004, the donation was in any case a life-saver. All users of s11n are encouraged to pay them a visit and buy a house from them: www.timberstead.com.

Rusty "Bozo" Ballinger, conceptual forefather of s11n

Fri, 27 May 2005 12:00:23 GMT

Rusty's work on the classloading and serialization layers for the QUB project were the original inspirations for the s11n project. i wanted that level of power in my non-Qt applications, and set out to write an STL-based equivalent...