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Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died

by christop on 1/29/18, 6:53 PM with 4 comments

• by chriscool on 1/29/18, 11:08 PM

  Here is the related thread on the Git mailing list:

  https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD0aKqT5YXJx9-MqeKCKhOVGxn...

• by matttproud on 1/29/18, 11:23 PM

  This is a damn shame. I wish his family well.

  I had the pleasure of having worked with Shawn on a few projects. He was a fantastic person and engineer. On one occasion — and completely unprompted — he mailed me a 0.5 cubic meter box of stuffed Diffy-the-Kung-Fu-Code-Review-Cuckoo plushies to distribute about the office: https://www.gerritcodereview.com