JavaScript:Hackers
This is a non-exhaustive list of people who regularly hack on SpiderMonkey: TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey, and all projects (named and unnamed) and technical areas beneath it.
If you regularly work on the JavaScript engine, feel free to add yourself to the list below, and to make corrections and updates to it as needed.
Regular JavaScript engine hackers
These people regularly hack on the JavaScript engine. If you're looking for someone who knows a particular concept well, to ask questions about it, clarify concepts, &c., this is a good place to look. (Note that only the subset of this list denoted as reviewer can review patches, unless a reviewer makes the request or forwards it to non-reviewer.)
(NB: Email addresses aren't listed for spam-prevention purposes. To find out an email address, type the listed Bugzilla identifier in the CC box on bmo and look at the autocompletion.)
| Name | Bugzilla ID | Areas of expertise | Reviewer? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Gal | gal@uci | Proxies, wrappers, GC | Yes |
| Bill McCloskey | billm@moz | Tracejit-versus-methodjit heuristics code | No |
| Blake Kaplan | mrbkap@gm | Proxies and wrappers | Yes |
| Brendan Eich | :brendan | JSAPI, shapes | Yes |
| Chris Leary | cdleary@moz | Regular expressions, yarr, parser, scanner | Yes |
| David Anderson | :dvander | Trace trees, tracer transitions | Yes |
| Dave Herman | dherman@moz | Reflection API | Yes |
| David Mandelin | dmandelin@moz | Method JIT, name lookup | Yes |
| Igor Bukanov | igor@mir2 | GC | Yes |
| Jan de Mooij | jandem | No | |
| Jason Orendorff | jorendorff@moz | Shapes, stack synthesization in the tracer | Yes |
| Jeff Walden | jwalden+bmo | ES5 spec, strict mode, arguments objects | Yes |
| Jim Blandy | :jimb | Debugger support, build system | Yes |
| Luke Wagner | luke@moz | C++ arcana, jstl and js::Vector, method JIT |
Yes |
| Mike Shaver | :shaver | Yes | |
| Nick Nethercote | :njn | Tracer, nanojit, parser, scanner | No |
| Rob Sayre | sayrer@gm | JSON | No |
| Tom Schuster | evilpie | No |
Hackers emeriti
These people once regularly hacked on the JavaScript engine but don't do so regularly any more. Reviewers listed here may or may not be willing to review patches. If they aren't, they'll say so when review is requested of them and perhaps forward it to a better person.
| Name | Bugzilla ID | Areas of expertise | Reviewer? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graydon Hoare | graydon@moz | Yes | |
| Brian Crowder | crowderbt@ | Yes |