rn-36: add article about Shawn

Author: chriscool

rev_news/drafts/edition-36.md

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 ## Discussions
 
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 ### General
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+* [Shawn Pearce has died](https://public-inbox.org/git/nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1801291031040.35@ZVAVAG-6OXH6DA.rhebcr.pbec.zvpebfbsg.pbz/)
+
+On January 29th Johannes Schindelin, alias Dscho, announced Shawn's
+death on the mailing. He had learned about it from
+[a tweet by Chris DiBona](https://twitter.com/cdibona/status/957822400518696960).
+
+Chris' post after telling that "Shawn Pearce, author and committer
+and/or founder of Git, Jgit, libgit and Gerrit has died, stricken by
+an aggressive cancer" points to a
+["Shawn Pearce Memorial Fund" on gofundme](https://www.gofundme.com/shawn-pearce-memorial-fund),
+but mostly asks people to join him in missing Shawn.
+
+Jeff King, alias Peff, wrote
+[a "Remembering Shawn Pearce" post](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/jan/30/shawn-pearce/)
+on the Software Freedom Conservancy blog.
+
+Luca Milanesio, the leader of the Gerrit project, also wrote
+[a post called "Shawn Pearce: a true leader"](https://gitenterprise.me/2018/01/30/shawn-pearce-a-true-leader/).
+
+There have been [discussions on the Gerrit mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/B4P7G1YirdM/discussion) too.
+
+On the Git mailing list, following Dscho's email, as can be expected
+in this kind of circumstances, people expressed a lot of emotions,
+like sadness, shock, sorrow and gratefulness. Some outlined how
+important and significant his contributions were. Then a small thread
+started about making "some sort of tribute to Shawn at the upcoming
+developer meeting in Barcelona". Even if it is not clear from the
+thread what kind of tribute will be made, developers were supportive
+of the idea, and something will very likely happen around the
+[upcoming Git Merge 2018 and associated Contributor Summit](https://git-merge.com/)
+on March 7-8 in Barcelona.
+
+Just before the closing talk of FOSSDEM 2018, "the world largest
+conference of its kind", on February 4th in Brussels, a big round of
+applause was made for Shawn.
+
+Shawn had been [interviewed in Git Rev News edition 30](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2017/08/16/edition-30/)
+published last August. He was also mentioned in 9 other editions, especially in
+[edition 11](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/01/13/edition-11/) in an article about
+["RefTree", an alternate ref backend that Shawn proposed](https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJvnAPNAdDcAAwAvU9C4RVeQdoS3Ev9WTguHx4fD0V_nOg@mail.gmail.com/)
+and in [edition 13](https://git.github.io/rev_news/2016/03/16/edition-13/)
+in an article about a [Resumable clone based on hybrid "smart" and "dumb" HTTP](https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtHgE_vye_1sPTDsvJ0X=Cs72HKLgRH8btpW-pMrDdk9g@mail.gmail.com/), another proposal from Shawn to significantly improve Git.
 
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