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+.. -*- mode: rst -*-
+
+.. _AUTHORS: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/browser/trunk/bcfg2/AUTHORS
+.. _MCS: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/
+
+.. _appendix-contributors:
+
+============
+Contributors
+============
+
+.. 
+   This is list is no longer in chronological order like the
+   AUTHORS file because it's easier to maintain (for me).
+   Automatically sorted.
+
+In alphabetical order of the given name:
+
+- Brian Pellin and Andrew Lusk did substantial work on Bcfg1, some of which was used in the bcfg2 client.
+- Chris Vuletich <vuletich@mcs.anl.gov> wrote some SSL code and the verification debugging code
+- Cory Lueninghoener <cory@mcs.anl.gov> wrote the showentries function in ``bcfg2-info``
+- Daniel Clark <dclark@pobox.com> created encap packages for bcfg2 and deps, wrote fossil-scm dvcs support, and helps with Debian packaging
+- Danny Clark enabled the Encap packaging
+- David Dahl worked on Hostbase
+- David Strauss worked on CentOS, RHEL, Yum, and Bazaar VCS support 
+- Ed Smith <esmith4@inf.ed.ac.uk> has done substantial hardening of the bcfg client and server and implemented a common logging infrastructure.
+- Fabian Affolter <fabian@bernewireless.net> made some patches and worked on the manual
+- Jason Pepas <cell@ices.utexas.edu> has written a RPM package list creator has contributed patches to the Red Hat toolset
+- Joey Hagedorn <hagedorn@mcs.anl.gov> has written the reporting subsystem, including StatReports, GenerateHostinfo, and the xslt, css and javascript associated with it.
+- Jos Catnook fixed bugs
+- Ken Raffenetti <raffenet@mcs.anl.gov> and Rick Bradshaw have written the Hostbase plugin
+- Michael Jinks <mjinks@uchicago.edu> wrote the Gentoo tool drivers
+- Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov> has written most of bcfg2, including all parts not explicitly mentioned in this file
+- Patrick Ruckstuhl fixed bugs in the templating
+- Pedro Flores made the Reporting system design help
+- Rick Bradshaw <bradshaw@mcs.anl.gov> has written several of the tools included in the ``tools/`` subdirectory
+- Sami Haahtinen <ressu@ressukka.net> has written Debian packaging logic.
+- Scott Behrens <behrens@mcs.anl.gov> and Rick Bradshaw have written the VHost plugin
+- Scott Matott
+- Sol Jerome <solj@ices.utexas.edu> squashes bugs, helps manage the project roadmap, and implements various interesting features.
+- Ti Leggett worked on ebuild packaging and bugfixes, RPM packaging
+- Zach Lowry Solaris support and general hardening
+
+
+The entire MCS_ systems team has provided invaluable help in the
+design process and refinement of the user interface. In particular,
+Gene Rackow and Sandra Bittner have provided great assistance
+throughout this project. Philip Steinbachs provided detailed
+feedback as an early external user.
+
+The most updated listing is available in the AUTHORS_ file in the
+SVN :term:`repository` of Bcfg2.
+