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| 1 | +Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the |
| 2 | +original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include |
| 3 | +Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +Until Python 2.3, IDLE's development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The |
| 6 | +objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment |
| 7 | +which could be initialized prior to each run of user code. |
| 8 | +IDLefork was merged into the Python code base in 2003. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter |
| 11 | +Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC |
| 12 | +code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed |
| 13 | +the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood |
| 14 | +contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Besides David and Guido, the main developers who were active on IDLEfork |
| 17 | +are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new |
| 18 | +configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed |
| 19 | +the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded |
| 20 | +subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration), |
| 23 | +Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration), |
| 24 | +Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC |
| 25 | +integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints). |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, |
| 28 | +Jim Jewett, Martin v. Löwis, Jason Orendorff, Guilherme Polo, Josh Robb, |
| 29 | +Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful |
| 30 | +patches. Thanks, guys! |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Major contributors since 2005: |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +- 2005: Tal Einat |
| 35 | +- 2010: Terry Jan Reedy (current maintainer) |
| 36 | +- 2013: Roger Serwy |
| 37 | +- 2014: Saimadhav Heblikar |
| 38 | +- 2015: Mark Roseman |
| 39 | +- 2017: Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Serhiy Storchaka |
| 40 | +- 2025: Stan Ulbrych |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +If we missed you, feel free to submit a PR with a summary of |
| 45 | +contributions (for instance, at least 5 merged PRs). |
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