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authorRoy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>2008-02-14 20:48:14 +0100
committerRoy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>2008-02-14 20:48:14 +0100
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Revert last change. It is not acceptable to remove all sources
of credit from our distribution files, even if they are out of date. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@627857 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
http://httpd.apache.org/
- February 2008
+ February 2002
The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed
at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available
@@ -65,8 +65,73 @@ December 1, 1995.
Less than a year after the group was formed, the Apache server passed
NCSA's httpd as the #1 server on the Internet.
+The survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/survey/) shows that Apache
+is today more widely used than all other web servers combined.
+
============================================================================
+Current Apache Group in alphabetical order as of 2 April 2002:
+
+ Greg Ames IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
+ Aaron Bannert California
+ Brian Behlendorf Collab.Net, California
+ Ken Coar IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
+ Mark J. Cox Red Hat, UK
+ Lars Eilebrecht Freelance Consultant, Munich, Germany
+ Ralf S. Engelschall Cable & Wireless Deutschland, Munich, Germany
+ Justin Erenkrantz University of California, Irvine
+ Roy T. Fielding Day Software, California
+ Tony Finch Covalent Technologies, California
+ Dean Gaudet Transmeta Corporation, California
+ Dirk-Willem van Gulik Covalent Technologies, California
+ Brian Havard Australia
+ Ian Holsman CNET, California
+ Ben Hyde Gensym, Massachusetts
+ Jim Jagielski jaguNET Access Services, Maryland
+ Manoj Kasichainula Collab.Net, California
+ Alexei Kosut Stanford University, California
+ Martin Kraemer Munich, Germany
+ Ben Laurie Freelance Consultant, UK
+ Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo!, California
+ Daniel Lopez Ridruejo Covalent Technologies, California
+ Doug MacEachern Covalent Technologies, California
+ Aram W. Mirzadeh CableVision, New York
+ Chuck Murcko The Topsail Group, Pennsylvania
+ Brian Pane CNET Networks, California
+ Sameer Parekh California
+ David Reid UK
+ William A. Rowe, Jr. Covalent, Illinois
+ Wilfredo Sanchez Apple Computer, California
+ Cliff Skolnick California
+ Marc Slemko Canada
+ Joshua Slive Canada
+ Greg Stein California
+ Bill Stoddard IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
+ Sander Striker The Netherlands
+ Paul Sutton Seattle
+ Randy Terbush Covalent Technologies, California
+ Jeff Trawick IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
+ Cliff Woolley University of Virginia
+
+Apache Emeritus (old group members now off doing other things)
+
+ Ryan Bloom California
+ Rob Hartill Internet Movie DB, UK
+ David Robinson Cambridge University, UK
+ Robert S. Thau MIT, Massachusetts
+ Andrew Wilson Freelance Consultant, UK
+
+Other major contributors
+
+ Howard Fear (mod_include), Florent Guillaume (language negotiation),
+ Koen Holtman (rewrite of mod_negotiation),
+ Kevin Hughes (creator of all those nifty icons),
+ Brandon Long and Beth Frank (NCSA Server Development Team, post-1.3),
+ Ambarish Malpani (Beginning of the NT port),
+ Rob McCool (original author of the NCSA httpd 1.3),
+ Paul Richards (convinced the group to use remote CVS after 1.0),
+ Garey Smiley (OS/2 port), Henry Spencer (author of the regex library).
+
Many 3rd-party modules, frequently used and recommended, are also
freely-available and linked from the related projects page:
<http://modules.apache.org/>, and their authors frequently
@@ -74,6 +139,10 @@ contribute ideas, patches, and testing.
Hundreds of people have made individual contributions to the Apache
project. Patch contributors are listed in the CHANGES file.
+Frequent contributors have included Petr Lampa, Tom Tromey, James H.
+Cloos Jr., Ed Korthof, Nathan Neulinger, Jason S. Clary, Jason A. Dour,
+Michael Douglass, Tony Sanders, Brian Tao, Michael Smith, Adam Sussman,
+Nathan Schrenk, Matthew Gray, and John Heidemann.
============================================================================
@@ -121,7 +190,7 @@ members -- three +1 (yes votes) and no -1 (no votes, or vetoes) are needed
to commit a code change during a release cycle; docs are usually committed
first and then changed as needed, with conflicts resolved by majority vote.
-Our primary method of communication is our mailing list. Approximately 100
+Our primary method of communication is our mailing list. Approximately 40
messages a day flow over the list, and are typically very conversational in
tone. We discuss new features to add, bug fixes, user problems, developments
in the web server community, release dates, etc. The actual code development
@@ -138,7 +207,7 @@ nominated by one member and unanimously approved by the voting members.
In most cases, this "new" member has been actively contributing to the
group's work for over six months, so it's usually an easy decision.
-The above describes our past and current (as of February 2008) guidelines,
+The above describes our past and current (as of July 2000) guidelines,
which will probably change over time as the membership of the group
changes and our development/coordination tools improve.