docs: correct the MUD-lineage sentence to your own account - #6
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The README and tour §1 said Nunley "co-wrote cool++, a C++ rewrite of Stephen White's CoolMUD." He corrected that on the fork's attribution PR: "I was one of the devs for cool++/coldmud. ColdStore is a better reference for what I was doing then." Two changes: "co-wrote" becomes "one of the developers on," and the reference points at ColdStore rather than the CoolMUD/MOO genealogy. The correction landed on the fork on 07-24 but never reached here — the branch carrying it is an advisory PR against a frozen base, so this is the first path to main. Research docs citing ColdMUD as an architectural influence are untouched; that part was never in question. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first pass transposed his correction rather than rewriting it, and
carried in wording that was his note to us, not prose for the README:
"ColdStore ... is the better reference for what he was doing then." It
also added a gloss he never offered ("a C++ persistent object store and
VM toolkit from that era").
The sentence now states only what he said — one of the developers, on
cool++/ColdMUD and ColdStore — and stops there. ColdMUD is capitalized
to match the Lineage section two paragraphs up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The README and tour §1 describe your MUD-era work the way our first attribution draft put it, rather than the way you corrected it.
Both currently say you "co-wrote cool++, a C++ rewrite of Stephen White's CoolMUD (White created MOO, from which LambdaMOO was forked)." Your correction, on mparrett/fmpl#7 on 07-22:
This applies that in both files. The sentence becomes:
I kept it to what you actually said. An earlier version of this PR transposed your sentence more literally and ended up carrying "ColdStore ... is the better reference for what he was doing then" into the README — which was you telling me where to look, not prose for your own page. It also glossed ColdStore as "a C++ persistent object store and VM toolkit from that era," which you never said and I couldn't confirm. Both are gone.
Reword freely — it's your history, and I'd rather the page say what you'd say. If ColdStore deserves a fuller description, or if the cool++/ColdMUD pairing needs splitting, just tell me and I'll take it verbatim.
Why this is only arriving now: the correction landed on the fork on 07-24, but the branch carrying it is one of the advisory PRs against a frozen base, so it had no path here. #3 didn't touch these lines, so this afternoon's merge left them as they were.
The research docs under
docs/research/citing ColdMUD as an architectural influence are untouched — that part was never in question.🤖 Generated with Claude Code