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diff --git a/doc/CONTRIBUTORS b/doc/CONTRIBUTORS new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d44cfe79 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +As an open source project, Netpbm has been written and otherwise supported by +myriad people from all over. Most of them have made isolated contributions +such as a single program, a single new feature, or a single bug fix. To save +clerical effort, we do not list them here and instead refer you to the HISTORY +file. This file lists people who have made broad contributions that wouldn't +be well summarized by the HISTORY file. + +Jef Poskanzer had the original idea for what is now Netpbm and wrote dozens of +programs and the original library code, as well as inventing and designing the +PNM formats and writing documentation. Jef's code contributions stopped in +1991 and because of rewrites, there is not much of Jef's code still remaining, +with what does remain being mostly obsolete. Nonetheless, the impact of that +original code is enormous, as everything in Netpbm today is derived in some +way from Jef's work. + +Bryan Henderson has been maintaining Netpbm since 1999 and has written more +code, in lines, than anyone else. Most of that is just rewriting old code in +a more maintainable style. But Bryan has also fixed more bugs than anyone, +since the normal bug reporting procedure is to tell the maintainer, and Bryan +normally fixes bugs reported that way himself. Bryan has also added many +features and whole programs at the suggestion of users. Bryan has written +most of the documentation, whether by writing manuals for programs whose +authors declined to do so or by rewriting manuals to make them more clear when +users had trouble using Netpbm. + +Akira F Urushibata has made myriad contributions since 2004. Much of the PBM +processing code is his, as he rewrote existing programs to be much faster, in +particular by using special bit-processing machine instructions. He also +created the entire test framework and regression test suite and runs those +regression tests and other tests regularly, and often develops fixes for the +bugs found. Nobody else has done significant alpha testing of Netpbm except +where developers have done it to test code they just wrote. This testing has +turned up many bugs in code going all the way back to 1989. + +Scott Pakin has contributed numerous programs over the years including the +fairly significant work 'pamstereogram'. + |