Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: >> In the archives I read from David in 2016: >> >> “I cannot exactly blame Ian Hulin for stopping to >> contribute (and I don't actually know whether he is >> still alive).” >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2016-05/msg00077.html >> >> Saddeningly, Ian seems to have died aged 59. >> >> I came long after that time, but looking at the commit logs, he >> seems to have helped with the early days of the Guile 2 migration, >> which is ironically near to its end at the moment (unless you argue >> it has been nearing the end for 10 years ...). >> >> I've tried to CC a few people who participated in development at >> that time and might not be following this list these days. > > We could dedicate the first LilyPond Guile 2 release to him.
That would make some sense, yes. With regard to dedications, the contributors section tends to be updated before stable versions. The next round would certainly warrant a paragraph of its own for James who has stuck around and bore a significant part of the load for migrating to new infrastructure, including setting up test servers for self-hosting (we did end up stuck on the hosted Sourceforge instance anyway, but he put a lot of work in to try and make a variant of our own work). And he kept up doing the manually driven part of the "Patchy" workload for more than a decade if I remember correctly. -- David Kastrup