From 9d5e77d26db2afad52777321d7d650d911df5a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:58:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Cleaned up the list of authors/contributors so that people actually working on Django get some props. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@8936 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- AUTHORS | 45 +++----- docs/faq/general.txt | 54 +--------- docs/internals/committers.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/internals/index.txt | 1 + 4 files changed, 207 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/internals/committers.txt diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 02bffae553..eb963d0363 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -3,39 +3,20 @@ of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been): -Adrian Holovaty , who originally created Django with -Simon and currently oversees things with Jacob. - -Simon Willison , who originally created Django with -Adrian during his year-long internship/placement at World Online and currently -helps from the sidelines. - -Jacob Kaplan-Moss , who joined the team shortly -before Simon departed and currently oversees things with Adrian. - -Wilson Miner , who designed Django's admin -interface, pretty error pages, official Web site (djangoproject.com) and has -made many other contributions. He makes us look good. - -Malcolm Tredinnick , who has made -significant contributions to all levels of the framework, from its database -layer to template system and documentation. - -Georg "Hugo" Bauer , who added -internationalization support, manages i18n contributions and has made a ton -of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. - -Luke Plant , who has contributed many excellent -improvements, including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and -unit tests. - -Russell Keith-Magee , who has contributed many excellent -improvements, including refactoring of the Django ORM code and unit tests. - -Robert Wittams , who majorly refactored the Django -admin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of excellent -tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. + * Adrian Holovaty + * Simon Willison + * Jacob Kaplan-Moss + * Wilson Miner + * Malcolm Tredinnick + * Georg "Hugo" Bauer + * Luke Plant + * Russell Keith-Magee + * Robert Wittams + * Gary Wilson + * Brian Rosner +More information on the main contributors to Django can be found in +docs/internals/committers.txt. And here is an inevitably incomplete list of MUCH-APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTORS -- people who have submitted patches, reported bugs, added translations, helped diff --git a/docs/faq/general.txt b/docs/faq/general.txt index 346ddd643c..10af6d0329 100644 --- a/docs/faq/general.txt +++ b/docs/faq/general.txt @@ -68,56 +68,10 @@ application layer. And it ships with a simple-yet-powerful Who's behind this? ------------------ -Django was developed at `World Online`_, the Web department of a newspaper in -Lawrence, Kansas, USA. - -`Adrian Holovaty`_ - Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He was lead - developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time Django was - developed and implemented on World Online's sites. Now he works for - washingtonpost.com building rich, database-backed information sites, and - continues to oversee Django development. He likes playing guitar (Django - Reinhardt style) and hacking on side projects such as `chicagocrime.org`_. - He lives in Chicago. - - On IRC, Adrian goes by ``adrian_h``. - -`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_ - Jacob is a whipper-snapper from California who spends equal time coding and - cooking. He's lead developer at World Online and actively hacks on various - cool side projects. He's contributed to the Python-ObjC bindings and was - the first guy to figure out how to write Tivo apps in Python. Lately he's - been messing with Python on the PSP. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas. - - On IRC, Jacob goes by ``jacobkm``. - -`Simon Willison`_ - Simon is a well-respected Web developer from England. He had a one-year - internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed - Django from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's - passionate about best practices in Web development and has maintained a - well-read Web-development blog for years at http://simon.incutio.com. - He works for Yahoo UK, where he managed to score the title "Hacker Liason." - He lives in London. - - On IRC, Simon goes by ``SimonW``. - -`Wilson Miner`_ - Wilson's design-fu makes us all look like rock stars. By day, he's an - interactive designer for `Apple`_. Don't ask him what he's working on, or - he'll have to kill you. He lives in San Francisco. - - On IRC, Wilson goes by ``wilsonian``. - -.. _`World Online`: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/WorldOnline -.. _`Adrian Holovaty`: http://www.holovaty.com/ -.. _`washingtonpost.com`: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ -.. _`chicagocrime.org`: http://www.chicagocrime.org/ -.. _`Simon Willison`: http://simon.incutio.com/ -.. _`simon.incutio.com`: http://simon.incutio.com/ -.. _`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`: http://www.jacobian.org/ -.. _`Wilson Miner`: http://www.wilsonminer.com/ -.. _`Apple`: http://www.apple.com/ +Django was originally developed at World Online, the Web department of a +newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Django's now run by an international team of +volunteers; you can read all about them over at the :ref:`list of committers +`> Which sites use Django? ----------------------- diff --git a/docs/internals/committers.txt b/docs/internals/committers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..127cd63393 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/internals/committers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +.. _internals-committers: + +Django committers +================= + +The original team +================= + +Django originally started at World Online, the Web department of the `Lawrence +Journal-World`_ of Lawrence, Kansas, USA. + +`Adrian Holovaty`_ + Adrian is a Web developer with a background in journalism. He's known in + journalism circles as one of the pioneers of "journalism via computer + programming", and in technical circles as "the guy who invented Django." + + He was lead developer at World Online for 2.5 years, during which time + Django was developed and implemented on World Online's sites. He's now the + leader and founder of EveryBlock_, a "news feed for your block". + + Adrian lives in Chicago, USA. + +`Simon Willison`_ + Simon is a well-respected web developer from England. He had a one-year + internship at World Online, during which time he and Adrian developed Django + from scratch. The most enthusiastic Brit you'll ever meet, he's passionate + about best practices in web development has maintains a well-read + `web-development blog`_. He works for `The Guardian`_. + + Simon lives in Brighton, England. + +`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_ + Jacob is a software architect at `Whiskey Media`_, one of those newfangled + Web 1.0 companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work + time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previous worked for the Lawrence + Journal-World, where he was the lead developer of Ellington, a commercial + web publishing platform for media companies. + + Jacob lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. + +`Wilson Miner`_ + Wilson's design-fu is what makes Django look so nice. He designed the + website you're looking at right now, as well as Django's acclaimed admin + interface. Wilson is the designer for EveryBlock_. + + Wilson lives in San Francisco, USA. + +.. _lawrence journal-world: http://ljworld.com/ +.. _adrian holovaty: http://holovaty.com/ +.. _everyblock: http://everyblock.com/ +.. _simon willison: http://simonwillison.net/ +.. _web-development blog: `simon willison`_ +.. _the guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ +.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/ +.. _whiskey media: http://whiskeymedia.com/ +.. _wilson miner: http://wilsonminer.com/ + +Current developers +================== + +Currently, Django is led by a team of volunteers from around the globe. + +BDFLs +----- + +Adrian and Jacob are the Co-`Benevolent Dictators for Life`_ of Django. When +"rough consensus and working code" fails, they're the ones who make the tough +decisions. + +.. _Benevolent Dictators for Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life + +Core developers +--------------- + +These are the folks who have a long history of contributions, a solid track +record of being helpful on the mailing lists, and a proven desire to dedicate +serious time to Django. In return, they've been granted the coveted commit bit, +and have free reign to hack on all parts of Django. + +`Malcolm Tredinnick`_ + Malcolm originally wanted to be a mathematician, somehow ended up a software + developer. He's contributed to many Open Source projects, has served on the + board of the GNOME foundation, and will kick your ass at chess. + + When he's not busy being an International Man of Mystery, Malcolm lives in + Sydney, Australia. + +.. _malcolm tredinnick: http://www.pointy-stick.com/ + +Russell Keith-Magee + Russell studied physics as an undergraduate, and studied neural networks for + my PhD. His first job was with a startup in the defense industry developing + simulation frameworks. Over time, mostly through work with Django, he's + become more involved in web development. + + Russell has helped with several major aspects of Django, including a a + couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more. + + Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth, + Australia. + +Joseph Kocherhans + Joseph is currently a developer at EveryBlock_, and previously worked for + the Lawrence Journal-World where he built most of the backend for the their + Marketplace site. He often disappears for several days into the woods, + attempts to teach himself computational linguistics, and annoys his + neighbors with his Charango_ playing. + + Joseph's first contribution to Django was a series of improvements to the + authorization system leading up to support for pluggable authorization. + Since then, he's worked on the new forms system, its use in the admin, and + many other smaller improvements. + + Joseph lives in Chicago, USA. + +.. _charango: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charango + +`Luke Plant`_ + Like has contributed many excellent improvements, including database-level + improvements, the CSRF middleware and many unit tests. + +.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/ + +Brian Rosner + Brian helped immensely in getting Django's "newforms-admin" branch finished + in time for Django 1.0; he's now a full committer, continuing to improve on + the admin and forms system. + +Gary Wilson + In early 2007, Gary start contributing a lot of cleanup fixes and fixing + broken windows. He's continued to do that necessary tidying up work + throughout the code base since then. + +Specialists +----------- + +`James Bennett`_ + James is Django's release manager; he also contributes to the documentation. + + James came to web development from philosophy when he discovered that + programmers get to argue just as much while collecting much better pay. He + where he works for the Journal-World developing Ellington. He `keeps a + blog`_, has written a `book on Django`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to + his car. + + James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. + +.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/ +.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_ +.. _book on Django: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1590599969/?tag=djangoproject-20 + +Ian Kelly + Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle. + +Matt Boersma + Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support. + +Justin Bronn + Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and third-year law student at the + University of Houston who enjoys studying legal topics related to + intellectual property and spatial law. + + Justin is the primary developer of ``django.contrib.gis``, a.k.a. + GeoDjango_. + +.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/ + +Jeremy Dunck + Jeremy the lead developer of Pegasus News, a personalized local site based + in Dallas, Texas. An early contributor to Greasemonkey and Django, he sees + technology as a tool for communication and access to knowledge. + + Jeremy helped kick off GeoDjango development, and is mostly responsible for + the serious speed improvements that signals received in Django 1.0. + + Jeremy lives in Dallas, Texas, USA. + +Developers Emeritus +=================== + +Georg "Hugo" Bauer + Georg created Django's internationalization system, managed i18n + contributions and made a ton of excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug + fixes. + +Robert Wittams + Robert was responsible for the *first* refactoring of Django's admin + siteadmin application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of + excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes. diff --git a/docs/internals/index.txt b/docs/internals/index.txt index b1647e983f..b56b3287d4 100644 --- a/docs/internals/index.txt +++ b/docs/internals/index.txt @@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ the hood". contributing documentation + committers