拉尔夫·贾尔斯去世（Xiph.org | Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript）
我们怀着沉痛的心情宣布，我们的朋友和同事拉尔夫·贾尔斯（Ralph Giles）去世了，他在IRC上被称为rillian。
拉尔夫于2000年开始为Xiph.org做贡献，并在2001年成为核心Ghostscript开发者。拉尔夫为无版权媒体生态系统做出了许多贡献，无论是作为Theora项目的负责人，还是担任多个Xiph库的发布经理，亦或是维护Xiph基础设施，这些基础设施被行业内的编解码工程师和研究人员广泛使用。
在他任职于Mozilla期间，拉尔夫也是第一个在Firefox中发布Rust代码的人，这对Rust语言和Firefox本身都是一个重要的里程碑。
拉尔夫是一位杰出的贡献者，是一位和蔼的同事，我们将深深怀念他。
官方公告：[链接](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730451626262530)
[1]: [链接](http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles.html)
[2]: [链接](https://media.xiph.org/)
[3]: [链接](https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-codebase-7e50328074e8)
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It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.<p>Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2].
He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox[3] during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself.<p>Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed.<p>Official Announcement: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7427730451626262530<p>[1]: http://www.wizards-of-os.org/archiv/sprecher/g_h/ralph_giles.html<p>[2]: https://media.xiph.org/<p>[3]: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/deploying-rust-in-a-large-codebase-7e50328074e8