diff -r 5ff1fc726848 -r c6bca38c1cbf parts/django/docs/internals/committers.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/parts/django/docs/internals/committers.txt Sat Jan 08 11:20:57 2011 +0530 @@ -0,0 +1,344 @@ +================= +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 and maintains a well-read + `web-development blog`_. + + Simon lives in Brighton, England. + +`Jacob Kaplan-Moss`_ + Jacob is a partner at `Revolution Systems`_ which provides support services + around Django and related open source technologies. A good deal of Jacob's + work time is devoted to working on Django. Jacob previously worked at World + Online, where Django was invented, 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 + Web site 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`_ +.. _jacob kaplan-moss: http://jacobian.org/ +.. _revolution systems: http://revsys.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 rein 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 + his 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 + couple major internal refactorings, creation of the test system, and more. + + Russell lives in the most isolated capital city in the world — Perth, + Australia. + +.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/ + +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 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`_ + At University Luke studied physics and Materials Science and also + met `Michael Meeks`_ who introduced him to Linux and Open Source, + re-igniting an interest in programming. Since then he has + contributed to a number of Open Source projects and worked + professionally as a developer. + + Luke has contributed many excellent improvements to Django, + including database-level improvements, the CSRF middleware and + many unit tests. + + Luke currently works for a church in Bradford, UK, and part-time + as a freelance developer. + +.. _luke plant: http://lukeplant.me.uk/ +.. _michael meeks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meeks_(software) + +`Brian Rosner`_ + Brian is currently the tech lead at Eldarion_ managing and developing + Django / Pinax_ based Web sites. He enjoys learning more about programming + languages and system architectures and contributing to open source + projects. Brian is the host of the `Django Dose`_ podcasts. + + 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. + + Brian lives in Denver, Colorado, USA. + +.. _brian rosner: http://oebfare.com/ +.. _eldarion: http://eldarion.com/ +.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/ + +`Gary Wilson`_ + Gary starting contributing patches to Django in 2006 while developing Web + applications for `The University of Texas`_ (UT). Since, he has made + contributions to the e-mail and forms systems, as well as many other + improvements and code cleanups throughout the code base. + + Gary is currently a developer and software engineering graduate student at + UT, where his dedication to spreading the ways of Python and Django never + ceases. + + Gary lives in Austin, Texas, USA. + +.. _Gary Wilson: http://gdub.wordpress.com/ +.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/ + +Justin Bronn + Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and attorney specializing + in legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law. + + In 2007, Justin began developing ``django.contrib.gis`` in a branch, + a.k.a. GeoDjango_, which was merged in time for Django 1.0. While + implementing GeoDjango, Justin obtained a deep knowledge of Django's + internals including the ORM, the admin, and Oracle support. + + Justin lives in Houston, Texas. + +.. _GeoDjango: http://geodjango.org/ + +Karen Tracey + Karen has a background in distributed operating systems (graduate school), + communications software (industry) and crossword puzzle construction + (freelance). The last of these brought her to Django, in late 2006, when + she set out to put a Web front-end on her crossword puzzle database. + That done, she stuck around in the community answering questions, debugging + problems, etc. -- because coding puzzles are as much fun as word puzzles. + + Karen lives in Apex, NC, USA. + +`Jannis Leidel`_ + Jannis graduated in media design from `Bauhaus-University Weimar`_, + is the author of a number of pluggable Django apps and likes to + contribute to Open Source projects like Pinax_. He currently works as + a freelance Web developer and designer. + + Jannis lives in Berlin, Germany. + +.. _Jannis Leidel: http://jezdez.com/ +.. _Bauhaus-University Weimar: http://www.uni-weimar.de/ +.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.com/ + +`James Tauber`_ + James is the lead developer of Pinax_ and the CEO and founder of + Eldarion_. He has been doing open source software since 1993, Python + since 1998 and Django since 2006. He serves on the board of the Python + Software Foundation and is currently on a leave of absence from a PhD in + linguistics. + + James currently lives in Boston, MA, USA but originally hails from + Perth, Western Australia where he attended the same high school as + Russell Keith-Magee. + +.. _James Tauber: http://jtauber.com/ + +`Alex Gaynor`_ + Alex is a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is also an + independent contractor. He found Django in 2007 and has been addicted ever + since he found out you don't need to write out your forms by hand. He has + a small obsession with compilers. He's contributed to the ORM, forms, + admin, and other components of Django. + + Alex lives in Chicago, IL, but spends most of his time in Troy, NY. + +.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net + +`Andrew Godwin`_ + Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been + developing against Django since 2007. He graduated from Oxford University + with a degree in Computer Science, and has become most well known + in the Django community for his work on South, the schema migrations + library. + + Andrew lives in London, UK. + +.. _Andrew Godwin: http://www.aeracode.org/ + +`Carl Meyer`_ + Carl has been working with Django since 2007 (long enough to remember + queryset-refactor, but not magic-removal), and works as a freelance + developer with OddBird_ and Eldarion_. He became a Django contributor by + accident, because fixing bugs is more interesting than working around + them. + + Carl lives in Elkhart, IN, USA. + +.. _Carl Meyer: http://www.oddbird.net/about/#hcard-carl +.. _OddBird: http://www.oddbird.net/ + +Ramiro Morales + Ramiro has been reading Django source code and submitting patches since + mid-2006 after researching for a Python Web tool with matching awesomeness + and being pointed to it by an old ninja. + + A software developer in the electronic transactions industry, he is a + living proof of the fact that anyone with enough enthusiasm can contribute + to Django, learning a lot and having fun in the process. + + Ramiro lives in Córdoba, Argentina. + +`Chris Beaven`_ + Chris has been submitting patches and suggesting crazy ideas for Django + since early 2006. An advocate for community involvement and a long-term + triager, he is still often found answering questions in the #django IRC + channel. + + Chris lives in Napier, New Zealand (adding to the pool of Oceanic core + developers). He works remotely as a developer for `Lincoln Loop`_. + +.. _Chris Beaven: http://smileychris.com/ +.. _Lincoln Loop: http://lincolnloop.com/ + +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 lives in Lawrence, Kansas, 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 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. + +Jeremy Dunck + Jeremy is 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. + +`Simon Meers`_ + Simon discovered Django 0.96 during his Computer Science PhD research and + has been developing with it full-time ever since. His core code + contributions are mostly in Django's admin application. He is also helping + to improve Django's documentation. + + Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia. + +.. _simon meers: http://simonmeers.com/ + +`Gabriel Hurley`_ + Gabriel has been working with Django since 2008, shortly after the 1.0 + release. Convinced by his business partner that Python and Django were the + right direction for the company, he couldn't have been more happy with the + decision. His contributions range across many areas in Django, but years of + copy-editing and an eye for detail lead him to be particularly at home + while working on Django's documentation. + + Gabriel works as a web developer in Berkeley, CA, USA. + +.. _gabriel hurley: http://strikeawe.com/ + +Tim Graham + When exploring Web frameworks for an independent study project in the fall + of 2008, Tim discovered Django and was lured to it by the documentation. + He enjoys contributing to the docs because they're awesome. + + Tim works as a software engineer and lives in Philadelphia, PA, 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 + application to allow for easier reuse and has made a ton of + excellent tweaks, feature additions and bug fixes.