@item
Michael Albinus wrote @file{dbus.el}, a package that implements the
D-Bus message bus protocol; @file{zeroconf.el}, a mode for browsing
-Avahi services; and @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
-interface. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
+Avahi services; @file{xesam.el}, a Xesam-based search engine
+interface; and @file{secrets.el}, an interface to keyring daemons for
+storing confidential data. He and Kai Großjohann wrote the Tramp package, which
provides transparent remote file editing using rcp, ssh, ftp, and
other network protocols. He and Daniel Pittman wrote
@file{tramp-cache.el}.
@item
Chong Yidong was the Emacs co-maintainer for Emacs 23. He made many
-improvements to the Emacs display engine.
+improvements to the Emacs display engine. He also wrote
+@file{tabulated-list.el}, a generic major mode for lists of data.
@item
James Clark wrote SGML mode, a mode for editing SGML documents; and
@item
Julien Danjou wrote an implementation of ``Desktop Notifications''
-(@file{notifications.el}).
+(@file{notifications.el}); and @file{color.el}, a library for general
+color manipulation. He also made various contributions to Gnus.
@item
Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote @file{htmlfontify.el}, to convert a buffer or
@item
Jan Djärv added support for the GTK+ toolkit and X drag-and-drop.
+He also wrote @file{dynamic-setting.el}.
@item
Carsten Dominik wrote Ref@TeX{}, a package for setting up labels and
Jesper Harder wrote @file{yenc.el}, for decoding yenc encoded messages.
@item
-K. Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
+Alexandru Harsanyi wrote a library for accessing SOAP web services.
+
+@item
+K.@: Shane Hartman wrote @file{chistory.el} and @file{echistory.el},
packages for browsing command history lists; @file{electric.el} and
@file{helper.el}, which provide an alternative command loop and
appropriate help facilities; @file{emacsbug.el}, a package for
Emacs: @file{dns.el} for Domain Name Service lookups;
@file{format-spec.el} for formatting arbitrary format strings;
@file{netrc.el} for parsing of @file{.netrc} files; and
-@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling. Components of
-Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David Blacka, Scott Byer,
-Kevin Greiner, Kai Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Sascha
+@file{time-date.el} for general date and time handling.
+He also wrote @file{network-stream.el}, for opening network processes;
+and @file{url-queue.el}, for controlling parallel downloads of URLs.
+Components of Gnus have also been written by: Nagy Andras, David
+Blacka, Scott Byer, Ludovic Courtès, Julien Danjou, Kevin Greiner, Kai
+Großjohann, Joe Hildebrand, Paul Jarc, Simon Josefsson, Sascha
Lüdecke, David Moore, Jim Radford, Benjamin Rutt, Raymond Scholz,
-Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi Yamaoka,
-Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the Gnus Manual}).
+Thomas Steffen, Reiner Steib, Didier Verna, Ilja Weis, Katsumi
+Yamaoka, Teodor Zlatanov, and others (@pxref{Contributors,,,gnus, the
+Gnus Manual}).
@item
Andrew Innes contributed extensively to the MS-Windows support.
@code{ls} command for platforms which don't have @code{ls} as a standard
program.
-@item
-Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
-
@item
David K@ringaccent{a}gedal wrote @file{tempo.el}, providing support for
easy insertion of boilerplate text and other common constructions.
+@item
+Igor Kuzmin wrote @file{cconv.el}, providing closure conversion for
+statically scoped Emacs lisp.
+
@item
Daniel LaLiberte wrote @file{edebug.el}, a source-level debugger for
Emacs Lisp; @file{cl-specs.el}, specifications to help @code{edebug}
text; @file{smerge-mode.el}, a minor mode for resolving @code{diff3}
conflicts; @file{diff-mode.el}, a mode for viewing and editing context
diffs; @file{css-mode.el} for Cascading Style Sheets;
-@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; and @file{mpc.el}, a
-client for the ``Music Player Daemon''.
+@file{bibtex-style.el} for BibTeX Style files; @file{mpc.el}, a
+client for the ``Music Player Daemon''; and @file{pcase.el},
+implementing ML-style pattern matching.
@item
Morioka Tomohiko wrote several packages for MIME support in Gnus and
cursor'' that you can move with the keyboard and use for copying text.
@item
-Ken Stevens wrote the initial version of @file{ispell.el} and maintains
-that package since Ispell 3.1 release.
+Ken Stevens wrote @file{ispell.el}, a spell-checker interface.
@item
Kim F.@: Storm made many improvements to the Emacs display engine,
@item
Tom Tromey wrote @file{bug-reference.el}, providing clickable links to
-bug reports.
+bug reports; and the first version of the Emacs package system.
@item
Eli Tziperman wrote @file{rmail-spam-filter.el}, a spam filter for RMAIL.
Daiki Ueno wrote @file{starttls.el}, support for Transport Layer
Security protocol; @file{sasl-cram.el} and @file{sasl-digest.el} (with
Kenichi Okada), and @file{sasl.el}, support for Simple Authentication
-and Security Layer (SASL); and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
+and Security Layer (SASL); @file{plstore.el} for secure storage of
+propery lists; and the EasyPG (and its predecessor PGG)
package, for GnuPG and PGP support.
@item
@item
Masatake Yamato wrote @file{ld-script.el}, an editing mode for GNU
-linker scripts, and contributed subword handling in CC mode.
+linker scripts, and contributed subword handling and style
+``guessing'' in CC mode.
@item
Jonathan Yavner wrote @file{testcover.el}, a package for keeping track
Neal Ziring and Felix S.@: T.@: Wu wrote @file{vi.el}, an emulation of the
VI text editor.
+@item
+Ted Zlatanov (as well as his contributions to the Gnus newsreader)
+wrote an interface to the GnuTLS library, for secure network
+connections; and a futures facility for the URL library.
+
@item
Detlev Zundel wrote @file{re-builder.el}, a package for building regexps
with visual feedback.
Broadey, Vincent Broman, David M.@: Brown, Georges Brun-Cottan, Joe
Buehler, W@l{}odek Bzyl, Bill Carpenter, Per Cederqvist, Hans Chalupsky,
Chong Yidong, Chris Chase, Bob Chassell, Andrew Choi, Sacha Chua, James
-Clark, Mike Clarkson, Glynn Clements, Daniel Colascione, Andrew Csillag,
+Clark, Mike Clarkson, Glynn Clements, Daniel Colascione, Ludovic
+Courtès, Andrew Csillag,
Baoqiu Cui, Doug Cutting, Mathias Dahl, Julien Danjou, Satyaki Das,
Vivek Dasmohapatra, Michael DeCorte, Gary Delp, Matthieu Devin, Eri
Ding, Jan Djärv, Carsten Dominik, Scott Draves, Benjamin Drieu,
Julien Gilles, David Gillespie, Bob Glickstein, Deepak Goel, Boris
Goldowsky, Michelangelo Grigni, Odd Gripenstam, Kai Großjohann,
Michael Gschwind, Bastien Guerry, Henry Guillaume, Doug Gwyn, Ken'ichi
-Handa, Lars Hansen, Chris Hanson, K. Shane Hartman, John Heidemann, Jon
-K.@: Hellan, Jesper Harder, Magnus Henoch, Markus Heritsch, Karl Heuer,
+Handa, Lars Hansen, Chris Hanson, Jesper Harder, Alexandru Harsanyi,
+K.@: Shane Hartman, John Heidemann, Jon
+K.@: Hellan, Magnus Henoch, Markus Heritsch, Karl Heuer,
Manabu Higashida, Anders Holst, Jeffrey C.@: Honig, Tassilo Horn, Kurt
Hornik, Tom Houlder, Joakim Hove, Denis Howe, Lars Ingebrigtsen, Andrew
Innes, Seiichiro Inoue, Philip Jackson, Pavel Janik, Paul Jarc, Ulf
-Jasper, Michael K. Johnson, Kyle Jones, Terry Jones, Simon Josefsson,
+Jasper, Michael K.@: Johnson, Kyle Jones, Terry Jones, Simon Josefsson,
Arne Jørgensen, Tomoji Kagatani, Brewster Kahle, Tokuya Kameshima,
Lute Kamstra, David Kastrup, David Kaufman, Henry Kautz, Taichi
Kawabata, Howard Kaye, Michael Kifer, Richard King, Peter Kleiweg, Karel
Klí@v{c}, Shuhei Kobayashi, Pavel Kobiakov, Larry K.@:
Kolodney, David M.@: Koppelman, Koseki Yoshinori, Robert Krawitz,
-Sebastian Kremer, Ryszard Kubiak, David Kågedal, Daniel LaLiberte,
+Sebastian Kremer, Ryszard Kubiak, Igor Kuzmin, David Kågedal, Daniel LaLiberte,
Karl Landstrom, Mario Lang, Aaron Larson, James R.@: Larus, Vinicius
Jose Latorre, Werner Lemberg, Frederic Lepied, Peter Liljenberg, Lars
Lindberg, Chris Lindblad, Anders Lindgren, Thomas Link, Juri Linkov,
-Francis Litterio, Emilio C. Lopes, Károly L@H{o}rentey, Dave Love,
+Francis Litterio, Emilio C.@: Lopes, Károly L@H{o}rentey, Dave Love,
Sascha Lüdecke, Eric Ludlam, Alan Mackenzie, Christopher J.@:
Madsen, Neil M.@: Mager, Ken Manheimer, Bill Mann, Brian Marick, Simon
Marshall, Bengt Martensson, Charlie Martin, Thomas May, Roland McGrath,
-Will Mengarini, David Megginson, Ben A. Mesander, Wayne Mesard, Brad
+Will Mengarini, David Megginson, Ben A.@: Mesander, Wayne Mesard, Brad
Miller, Lawrence Mitchell, Richard Mlynarik, Gerd Moellmann, Stefan
Monnier, Morioka Tomohiko, Keith Moore, Jan Moringen, Glenn Morris,
Diane Murray, Sen Nagata, Erik Naggum, Thomas Neumann, Thien-Thi Nguyen,
David Pearson, Jeff Peck, Damon Anton Permezel, Tom Perrine, William
M.@: Perry, Per Persson, Jens Petersen, Daniel Pfeiffer, Richard L.@:
Pieri, Fred Pierresteguy, Christian Plaunt, David Ponce, Francesco A.@:
-Potorti, Michael D. Prange, Mukesh Prasad, Ken Raeburn, Marko Rahamaa,
-Ashwin Ram, Eric S. Raymond, Paul Reilly, Edward M. Reingold, Alex
+Potorti, Michael D.@: Prange, Mukesh Prasad, Ken Raeburn, Marko Rahamaa,
+Ashwin Ram, Eric S.@: Raymond, Paul Reilly, Edward M.@: Reingold, Alex
Rezinsky, Rob Riepel, David Reitter, Adrian Robert, Nick Roberts, Roland
B.@: Roberts, John Robinson, Danny Roozendaal, Sebastian Rose, William
Rosenblatt, Guillermo J.@: Rozas, Martin Rudalics, Ivar Rummelhoff,
-Jason Rumney, Wolfgang Rupprecht, Kevin Ryde, James B. Salem, Masahiko
+Jason Rumney, Wolfgang Rupprecht, Kevin Ryde, James B.@: Salem, Masahiko
Sato, Jorgen Schaefer, Holger Schauer, William Schelter, Ralph
-Schleicher, Gregor Schmid, Michael Schmidt, Ronald S. Schnell, Philippe
+Schleicher, Gregor Schmid, Michael Schmidt, Ronald S.@: Schnell, Philippe
Schnoebelen, Jan Schormann, Alex Schroeder, Stephen Schoef, Raymond
Scholz, Eric Schulte, Andreas Schwab, Randal Schwartz, Oliver Seidel,
Manuel Serrano, Paul Sexton, Hovav Shacham, Stanislav Shalunov, Marc
Didier Verna, Joakim Verona, Ulrik Vieth, Geoffrey Voelker, Johan
Vromans, Inge Wallin, John Paul Wallington, Colin Walters, Barry Warsaw,
Morten Welinder, Joseph Brian Wells, Rodney Whitby, John Wiegley, Ed
-Wilkinson, Mike Williams, Bill Wohler, Steven A. Wood, Dale R.@: Worley,
-Francis J.@: Wright, Felix S. T. Wu, Tom Wurgler, Katsumi Yamaoka,
+Wilkinson, Mike Williams, Bill Wohler, Steven A.@: Wood, Dale R.@: Worley,
+Francis J.@: Wright, Felix S.@: T.@: Wu, Tom Wurgler, Katsumi Yamaoka,
Yamamoto Mitsuharu, Masatake Yamato, Jonathan Yavner, Ryan Yeske, Ilya
Zakharevich, Milan Zamazal, Victor Zandy, Eli Zaretskii, Jamie Zawinski,
Shenghuo Zhu, Piotr Zielinski, Ian T.@: Zimmermann, Reto Zimmermann,