Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 20:11:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r53573 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors Message-ID: <201911092011.xA9KBEUO086768@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: bcr Date: Sat Nov 9 20:11:13 2019 New Revision: 53573 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53573 Log: Add an entry for Kurt Lidl in the "In Memoriam" section. Obtained from: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/in-memory-of-kurt-lidl/ Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Sat Nov 9 19:15:25 2019 (r53572) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.develinmemoriam.xml Sat Nov 9 20:11:13 2019 (r53573) @@ -4,6 +4,31 @@ xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"> <listitem> + <para>Kurt Lidl (2015 - 2019; RIP 2019)</para> + + <para>Kurt first got involved with BSD while it was still a + project at the University of California at Berkeley. Shortly + after personalized license plates became available in Maryland, + he got "BSDWZRD".</para> + + <para>He began contributing to FreeBSD shortly after the + conception of the project. He became a FreeBSD source committer + in October 2015.</para> + + <para>Kurt's most well known FreeBSD project was + &man.blacklistd.8; which blocks and releases ports on demand to + avoid DoS abuse. He has also made many other bug fixes and + enhancements to DTrace, boot loaders, and other bits and pieces + of the FreeBSD infrastructure.</para> + + <para>Earlier work included the game XTank, an author on RFC 2516 + <link xlink:href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2516">"A Method + for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)"</link>, and the + USENIX paper <link + xlink:href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-winter-1994-technical-conference/drinking-firehose-multicast-usenet-news">"Drinking from the Firehose: Multicast USENET News"</link>.</para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> <para>Frank Durda IV (1995 - 2003; RIP 2018)</para> <para>Frank had been around the project since the
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