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2. Authorship of XEmacs

XEmacs is the result of the time and effort of many people, and the active developers have changed over time. There are two major components of the XEmacs effort – writing the code itself and providing all the support work (testing the code, releasing beta and final versions, handling patches, reading bug reports, maintaining the web site, managing the mailing lists, etc. etc.). Neither component would work without the other.

CODING

The primary code contributor over the years has been Ben Wing (active since late 1992). Between 1991 and 1995, large amounts of coding was contributed by Jamie Zawinski and Chuck Thompson. Many other people have authored major subsystems or otherwise contributed large amounts of code, including Andy Piper, Hrvoje Niksic, Jerry James, Jonathan Harris, Kyle Jones, Martin Buchholz, Michael Sperber, Olivier Galibert, Richard Mlynarik, Stig, William Perry and plenty of others.

Primary XEmacs-specific subsystems and their authors:

Objects
Internationalization/Mule
I/O
Display
Device subsystems
Misc

SUPPORT

Currently, support duties are handled by many different people.

Release managers have been

The recent overlapping dates are intentional, since two or three trees are maintained simultaneously at any point.

Other major support work:


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