erc: History
7 History
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ERC was originally written by Alexander L. Belikoff and Sergey Berezin.
They stopped development around December 1999. Their last released
version was ERC 2.0.
P.S.: If one of the original developers of ERC reads this, we’d like
to receive additional information for this file and hear comments in
general.
• 2001
In June 2001, Mario Lang and Alex Schroeder took over development
and created a ERC Project at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/erc>.
In reaction to a mail about the new ERC development effort, Sergey
Berezin said, “First of all, I’m glad that my version of ERC is
being used out there. The thing is, I do not have free time and
enough incentive anymore to work on ERC, so I would be happy if you
guys take over the project entirely.”
So we happily hacked away on ERC, and soon after (September 2001)
released the next "stable" version, 2.1.
Most of the development of the new ERC happened on #emacs on
irc.openprojects.net. Over time, many people contributed code,
ideas, bugfixes, and a lot of alpha/beta/gamma testing.
See the ‘CREDITS’ file for a list of contributors.
• 2003
ERC 3.0 was released.
• 2004
ERC 4.0 was released.
• 2005
ERC 5.0 was released. Michael Olson became the release manager and
eventually the maintainer.
After some discussion between him and the Emacs developers, it was
decided to include ERC in Emacs.
• 2006
ERC 5.1 was released. It was subsequently included in Emacs 22.
ERC became an official GNU project, and development moved to
<http://sv.gnu.org/projects/erc>. We switched to using GNU Arch as
our revision control system. Our mailing list address changed as
well.
• 2007
We switched to using git for our version control system.
• 2009+
Since about 2009, ERC is no longer developed as a separate project,
but is maintained as part of Emacs.
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