Shawn Pearce, author of Gerrit and Git-related projects, has died
twitter.comHere is the related thread on the Git mailing list:
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAP8UFD0aKqT5YXJx9-MqeKCKhOVGxn...
And on the Gerrit mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/repo-discuss/B4P7G1YirdM/d...
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
In my limited interactions, he was a great person and incredibly patient, too.