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Revision: 3854
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Wed Jun 29 06:56:08 2011
Log: * src/en/book/ch00-preface.xml
(svn.preface.acks): Whack the Acknowledgements, eliminating the
explicit list of contributors (which is *way* stale by now) and the
author Acks.
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=3854
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</footnote>
</para>
- <para>Thanks to O'Reilly and our various editors: Chuck Toporek,
- Linda Mui, Tatiana Apandi, Mary Brady, and Mary Treseler. Their
- patience and support has been tremendous.</para>
+ <para>Thanks to O'Reilly and the team of professional editors who
+ have helped us polish this text at various stages of its
+ evolution: Chuck Toporek, Linda Mui, Tatiana Apandi, Mary Brady,
+ and Mary Treseler. Your patience and support has been
+ tremendous.</para>
<para>Finally, we thank the countless people who contributed to
- this book with informal reviews, suggestions, and patches.
- While this is undoubtedly not a complete list, this book would
- be incomplete and incorrect without their help:
-
- Bhuvaneswaran A,
- David Alber,
- C. Scott Ananian,
- David Anderson,
- Ariel Arjona,
- Seth Arnold,
- Jani Averbach,
- Charles Bailey,
- Ryan Barrett,
- Francois Beausoleil,
- Brian R. Becker,
- Yves Bergeron,
- Karl Berry,
- Jennifer Bevan,
- Matt Blais,
- Jim Blandy,
- Phil Bordelon,
- Sietse Brouwer,
- Tom Brown,
- Zack Brown,
- Martin Buchholz,
- Paul Burba,
- Sean Callan-Hinsvark,
- Branko Cibej,
- Archie Cobbs,
- Jason Cohen,
- Ryan Cresawn,
- John R. Daily,
- Peter Davis,
- Olivier Davy,
- Robert P. J. Day,
- Mo DeJong,
- Brian Denny,
- Joe Drew,
- Markus Dreyer,
- Nick Duffek,
- Boris Dusek,
- Ben Elliston,
- Justin Erenkrantz,
- Jens M. Felderhoff,
- Kyle Ferrio,
- Shlomi Fish,
- Julian Foad,
- Chris Foote,
- Martin Furter,
- Vlad Georgescu,
- Peter Gervai,
- Dave Gilbert,
- Eric Gillespie,
- David Glasser,
- Marcel Gosselin,
- Lieven Govaerts,
- Steve Greenland,
- Matthew Gregan,
- Tom Gregory,
- Maverick Grey,
- Art Haas,
- Mark E. Hamilton,
- Eric Hanchrow,
- Liam Healy,
- Malte Helmert,
- Michael Henderson,
- Øyvind A. Holm,
- Greg Hudson,
- Alexis Huxley,
- Auke Jilderda,
- Toby Johnson,
- Jens B. Jorgensen,
- Tez Kamihira,
- David Kimdon,
- Mark Benedetto King,
- Robert Kleemann,
- Erik Kline,
- Josh Knowles,
- Andreas J. Koenig,
- Axel Kollmorgen,
- Nuutti Kotivuori,
- Kalin Kozhuharov,
- Matt Kraai,
- Regis Kuckaertz,
- Stefan Kueng,
- Steve Kunkee,
- Scott Lamb,
- Wesley J. Landaker,
- Benjamin Landsteiner,
- Vincent Lefevre,
- Morten Ludvigsen,
- Dennis Lundberg,
- Paul Lussier,
- Bruce A. Mah,
- Jonathon Mah,
- Karl Heinz Marbaise,
- Philip Martin,
- Feliciano Matias,
- Neil Mayhew,
- Patrick Mayweg,
- Gareth McCaughan,
- Craig McElroy,
- Simon McKenna,
- Christophe Meresse,
- Jonathan Metillon,
- Jean-Francois Michaud,
- Jon Middleton,
- Robert Moerland,
- Marcel Molina Jr.,
- Tim Moloney,
- Alexander Mueller,
- Tabish Mustufa,
- Christopher Ness,
- Roman Neuhauser,
- Mats Nilsson,
- Greg Noel,
- Joe Orton,
- Eric Paire,
- Dimitri Papadopoulos-Orfanos,
- Jerry Peek,
- Chris Pepper,
- Amy Lyn Pilato,
- Kevin Pilch-Bisson,
- Hans Polak,
- Dmitriy Popkov,
- Michael Price,
- Mark Proctor,
- Steffen Prohaska,
- Daniel Rall,
- Srinivasa Ramanujan,
- Jack Repenning,
- Tobias Ringstrom,
- Jason Robbins,
- Garrett Rooney,
- Joel Rosdahl,
- Christian Sauer,
- Ryan Schmidt,
- Jochem Schulenklopper,
- Jens Seidel,
- Daniel Shahaf,
- Larry Shatzer,
- Danil Shopyrin,
- Erik Sjoelund,
- Joey Smith,
- W. Snyder,
- Stefan Sperling,
- Robert Spier,
- M. S. Sriram,
- Russell Steicke,
- David Steinbrunner,
- Sander Striker,
- David Summers,
- Johan Sundstroem,
- Ed Swierk,
- John Szakmeister,
- Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis,
- Robert Tasarz,
- Michael W. Thelen,
- Mason Thomas,
- Erik van der Kolk,
- Joshua Varner,
- Eric Wadsworth,
- Chris Wagner,
- Colin Watson,
- Alex Waugh,
- Chad Whitacre,
- Andy Whitcroft,
- Josef Wolf,
- Luke Worth,
- Hyrum Wright,
- Blair Zajac,
- Florian Zumbiehl,
-
- and the entire Subversion community.</para>
-
- <!-- ===============================================================
-->
- <sect2 id="svn.preface.acks.sussman">
- <title>From Ben Collins-Sussman</title>
-
- <para>Thanks to my wife Frances, who, for many months, got to
- hear <quote>But honey, I'm still working on the book,</quote>
- rather than the usual <quote>But honey, I'm still doing
- email.</quote> I don't know where she gets all that patience!
- She's my perfect counterbalance.</para>
-
- <para>Thanks to my extended family and friends for their sincere
- encouragement, despite having no actual interest in the
- subject. (You know, the ones who say, <quote>Ooh, you wrote a
- book?</quote> and then when you tell them it's a computer
- book, sort of glaze over.)</para>
-
- <para>Thanks to all my close friends, who make me a rich, rich man.
- Don't look at me that way—you know who you are.</para>
-
- <para>Thanks to my parents for the perfect low-level formatting
- and being unbelievable role models. Thanks to my kids for the
- opportunity to pass that on.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <!-- ===============================================================
-->
- <sect2 id="svn.preface.acks.fitz">
- <title>From Brian W. Fitzpatrick</title>
-
- <para>Huge thanks to my wife Marie for being incredibly
- understanding, supportive, and most of all, patient. Thank
- you to my brother Eric who first introduced me to Unix
- programming way back when. Thanks to my Mom and Grandmother
- for all their support, not to mention enduring a Christmas
- holiday where I came home and promptly buried my head in my
- laptop to work on the book.</para>
-
- <para>To Mike and Ben: it was a pleasure working with you on the
- book. Heck, it's a pleasure working with you at work!</para>
-
- <para>To everyone in the Subversion community and the Apache
- Software Foundation, thanks for having me. Not a day goes by
- where I don't learn something from at least one of you.
- </para>
-
- <para>Lastly, thanks to my grandfather, who always told me that
- <quote>freedom equals responsibility.</quote> I couldn't agree
- more.</para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <!-- ===============================================================
-->
- <sect2 id="svn.preface.acks.cmpilato">
- <title>From C. Michael Pilato</title>
-
- <para>Special thanks to Amy, my best friend and wife of more than
- twelve incredible years, for her love and patient support, for
- putting up with the late nights, and for graciously enduring
- the version control processes I've imposed on her.</para>
-
- <para>Mom and Dad, thanks for your constant support and
- enthusiasm. Mom- and Dad-in-law, thanks for all of the same
- <emphasis>plus</emphasis> your fabulous daughter.</para>
-
- <para>Hats off to Shep Kendall, through whom the world of
- computers was first opened to me; Ben Collins-Sussman, my
- tour guide through the open source world; Karl Fogel, you
- <emphasis>are</emphasis> my <filename>.emacs</filename>; Greg
- Stein, for oozing practical programming know-how; and Brian
- Fitzpatrick, for sharing this writing experience with me.
- To the many folks from whom I am constantly picking up new
- knowledge—keep dropping it!</para>
-
- <para>Finally, to the One who perfectly demonstrates creative
- excellence—thank You.</para>
-
- </sect2>
+ this book with informal reviews, suggestions, and patches. An
+ exhaustive listing of those folks' names would be impractical to
+ print and maintain here, but may their names live on forever in
+ this book's version control history!</para>
</sect1>
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