Commit ee11d325 authored by Aymeric Augustin's avatar Aymeric Augustin
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Reorganize committers list chronologically.

This completes the removal of the distinction between core devs and
specialists.

Patch by Simon Meers.
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@@ -12,18 +12,25 @@ The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
    * Luke Plant
    * Russell Keith-Magee
    * Robert Wittams
    * James Bennett
    * Gary Wilson
    * Matt Boersma
    * Ian Kelly
    * Joseph Kocherhans
    * Brian Rosner
    * Justin Bronn
    * Karen Tracey
    * Jannis Leidel
    * James Tauber
    * Alex Gaynor
    * Simon Meers
    * Andrew Godwin
    * Carl Meyer
    * Ramiro Morales
    * Gabriel Hurley
    * Chris Beaven
    * Honza Král
    * Tim Graham
    * Idan Gazit
    * Paul McMillan
    * Julien Phalip
@@ -36,6 +43,7 @@ The PRIMARY AUTHORS are (and/or have been):
    * Preston Holmes
    * Simon Charette
    * Donald Stufft
    * Daniel Lindsley
    * Marc Tamlyn

More information on the main contributors to Django can be found in
@@ -91,7 +99,6 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
    Shannon -jj Behrens <http://jjinux.blogspot.com/>
    Esdras Beleza <linux@esdrasbeleza.com>
    Chris Bennett <chrisrbennett@yahoo.com>
    James Bennett
    Danilo Bargen
    Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>
    berto
@@ -104,7 +111,6 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
    Simon Blanchard
    Craig Blaszczyk <masterjakul@gmail.com>
    David Blewett <david@dawninglight.net>
    Matt Boersma <matt@sprout.org>
    Artem Gnilov <boobsd@gmail.com>
    Matías Bordese
    Nate Bragg <jonathan.bragg@alum.rpi.edu>
@@ -278,7 +284,6 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
    Rob Hudson <http://rob.cogit8.org/>
    Jason Huggins <http://www.jrandolph.com/blog/>
    Jeff Hui <jeffkhui@gmail.com>
    Gabriel Hurley <gabriel@strikeawe.com>
    Hyun Mi Ae
    Ibon <ibonso@gmail.com>
    Tom Insam
@@ -327,7 +332,6 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
    Meir Kriheli <http://mksoft.co.il/>
    Bruce Kroeze <http://coderseye.com/>
    krzysiek.pawlik@silvermedia.pl
    Joseph Kocherhans
    konrad@gwu.edu
    knox <christobzr@gmail.com>
    David Krauth
@@ -360,7 +364,6 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
    limodou
    Philip Lindborg <philip.lindborg@gmail.com>
    Simon Litchfield <simon@quo.com.au>
    Daniel Lindsley <daniel@toastdriven.com>
    Trey Long <trey@ktrl.com>
    Laurent Luce <http://www.laurentluce.com>
    Martin Mahner <http://www.mahner.org/>
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@@ -88,6 +88,23 @@ Malcolm Tredinnick

    *Malcolm passed away on March 17, 2013.*

`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)

`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
@@ -102,6 +119,42 @@ Malcolm Tredinnick

.. _russell keith-magee: http://cecinestpasun.com/

`James Bennett`_
    James is Django's release manager, and also contributes to the
    documentation and provide the occasional bugfix.

    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 and previously worked at
    World Online; currently, he's part of the Web development team at
    Mozilla.

    He `keeps a blog`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to his car.

.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_

`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 email 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://thegarywilson.com/
.. _The University of Texas: http://www.utexas.edu/

Matt Boersma
    Matt is responsible for Django's Oracle support.

Ian Kelly
    Ian is also responsible for Django's support for Oracle.

Joseph Kocherhans
    Joseph was the director of lead development at EveryBlock and previously
    developed at the Lawrence Journal-World. He is treasurer of the `Django
@@ -119,23 +172,6 @@ Joseph Kocherhans
.. _django software foundation: https://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/
.. _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
@@ -153,21 +189,6 @@ Joseph Kocherhans
.. _django dose: http://djangodose.com/
.. _pinax: http://pinaxproject.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 email 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://thegarywilson.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.
@@ -232,6 +253,15 @@ Karen Tracey
.. _Alex Gaynor: http://alexgaynor.net
.. _Rdio: http://rdio.com

`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.

    Simon works as a freelance developer based in Wollongong, Australia.

.. _Simon Meers: http://simonmeers.com/

`Andrew Godwin`_
    Andrew is a freelance Python developer and tinkerer, and has been
    developing against Django since 2007. He graduated from Oxford University
@@ -265,6 +295,18 @@ Ramiro Morales

    Ramiro lives in Córdoba, Argentina.

`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/

`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
@@ -290,6 +332,13 @@ Honza Král

.. _Whiskey Media: http://www.whiskeymedia.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.

`Idan Gazit`_
    As a self-professed design geek, Idan was initially attracted to Django
    sometime between magic-removal and queryset-refactor. Formally trained
@@ -439,6 +488,18 @@ Jeremy Dunck
.. _Ultimate Frisbee: http://www.montrealultimate.ca
.. _Reptiletech: http://www.reptiletech.com

Donald Stufft
    Donald found Python and Django in 2007 while trying to find a language,
    and web framework that he really enjoyed using after many years of PHP. He
    fell in love with the beauty of Python and the way Django made tasks simple
    and easy. His contributions to Django focus primarily on ensuring that it
    is and remains a secure web framework.

    Donald currently works at `Nebula Inc`_ as a Software Engineer for their
    security team and lives in the Greater Philadelphia Area.

.. _Nebula Inc: https://www.nebula.com/

`Daniel Lindsley`_
    Pythonista since 2003, Djangonaut since 2006. Daniel started with Django
    just after the v0.90 release (back when ``Manipulators`` looked good) & fell
@@ -453,56 +514,6 @@ Jeremy Dunck
.. _`Daniel Lindsley`: http://toastdriven.com/
.. _`Amazon Web Services`: https://aws.amazon.com/

`James Bennett`_
    James is Django's release manager, and also contributes to the
    documentation and provide the occasional bugfix.

    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 and previously worked at
    World Online; currently, he's part of the Web development team at
    Mozilla.

    He `keeps a blog`_, and enjoys fine port and talking to his car.

.. _james bennett: http://b-list.org/
.. _keeps a blog: `james bennett`_

Ian Kelly
    Ian is responsible for Django's support for Oracle.

Matt Boersma
    Matt is also responsible for Django's Oracle support.

`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.

Marc Tamlyn
    Marc started life on the web using Django 1.2 back in 2010, and has never
    looked back. He was involved with rewriting the class based view
@@ -515,18 +526,6 @@ Marc Tamlyn
.. _CCBV: http://ccbv.co.uk/
.. _Incuna Ltd: http://incuna.com/

Donald Stufft
    Donald found Python and Django in 2007 while trying to find a language,
    and web framework that he really enjoyed using after many years of PHP. He
    fell in love with the beauty of Python and the way Django made tasks simple
    and easy. His contributions to Django focus primarily on ensuring that it
    is and remains a secure web framework.

    Donald currently works at `Nebula Inc`_ as a Software Engineer for their
    security team and lives in the Greater Philadelphia Area.

.. _Nebula Inc: https://www.nebula.com/

Developers Emeritus
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