ht://Dig: Thanks

ht://Dig Copyright © 1995-2004 The ht://Dig Group
Please see the file COPYING for license information.

As with most development projects, contributions come from many people and in many forms. The ht://Dig project would like to thank its many contributors. Omissions are merely accidental, please e-mail the htdig-dev list if you have been left out or a contribution is not mentioned.

Active Developers (in alphabetical order)

• Lachlan Andrew for much testing, debugging, continual help and cracking of the whip.
• Gabriele Bartolini for the new htnet and date/time code and continual help.
• Jim Cole for testing, debugging, and being a big help on the mailing lists.
• Loic Dachary for Berkeley DB compression, automake/libtool customization, word database implementation, regression tests, fixes using Purify.
• Gilles Detillieux for uncountable bug-fixes, feature enhancements, RedHat RPMs, and documentation updates.
• Geoff Hutchison for filling in as maintainer, dreaming up implementations, and handling many of the little details.
• Torsten Neuer for a variety of bug-fixes, suggestions, and the contributed PHP wrapper.
• Toivo Pedaste for fixing memory leaks and various bugs and contributing md5 duplicate-detection code.
• Neal Richter for the native Win32 port, libhtdig development, testing and debugging.
• Quim Sanmarti for providing a new htsearch query parser in qtest.

Additional Contributors:

• Sergey Abdurashitov for some nifty htsearch formatting options.
• D.J. Adams for contributing the doc2html external converter.
• Esa Ahloa for the Prefix fuzzy algorithm, for the DB2 backend and many bug fixes.
• Jerome Alet for bugfixes in the htsearch CGI.
• Andy Armstrong for contributing regex-based URL rewriting.
• John Banbury for his contributed synonym file.
• Richard Beton for his rewrite of htnotify, including one message per e-mail address and customizable messages.
• Alexander Bergolth for bug fixes, htsearch logging, and other features.
• Andrew Bishop for many bug fixes and gentle prodding.
• Pontus Borg for fixes under AIX.
• Marcel Bosc for improvements in the word database implementation.
• Lorenzo Campedelli for fixing problems with phrase searching.
• Vadim Chekan for many bug fixes and the new configuration parser.
• Matthew Daniel for nph-CGI support.
• Ákos Dömötör for unaccented search-match code.
• Jennifer Dudley for fixing an infinite loop in htdig's local_urls handling.
• Peter Enderborg for bug fixes in the plaintext parser.
• Pasi Eronen for countless memory patches, virtual hosting, and local file digging.
• Iosif Fettich for improving internationalization support.
• Tim Frost for fixing URLs with single quotes.
• Didier Gautheron for fixing many bugs and general improvements.
• Joshua Gerth for contributing HTTPS support to 3.2 using OpenSSL.
• Peter Gray for contributing support for regex in config attributes.
• Bernhard Griener for argument checks in mystrncasecmp().
• John Grohol for the EWS wrapper script.
• Jason Haar for a fix to htnotify's e-mail header syntax.
• Zvi Har'El for bug reports and patches.
• Werner Hett for discovering a security hole in htnotify.
• Rajendra Inamdar for contributing htsearch collection support.
• Joe Jah for bug fixes and maintaining the ht://Dig patch archive at ftp://sol.ccsf.cc.ca.us/htdig-patches/.
• Richard Jones for his contributed MS Word external parser.
• Aidas Kasparas for contributing support for META refresh tags.
• Marjolein Katsma for implementing anchors in excerpts and parsing comments and many updates to the documentation.
• Ric Klaren for patches to the Makefiles and help with RPM support.
• Maren Leizoala for countless bug reports and thorough testing.
• David Lippi for testing and improving RTF2HTML.
• Benoit Majeau for contributing additional URL debugging info.
• Robert Marchand for contributing the accents fuzzy algorithm.
• Paul Meyer for fixing connection code on Dec Alpha environments.
• Alexis Mikhailov for contributing better support for local filesystem indexing.
• Hanno Mueller for script_name patch and examples.
• Klaus Mueller for working out a Win32 port using CygWin.
• Marco Nenciarini for the new autotools support and the conditional removal of deprecated include files.
• Hans-Peter Nilsson for many bug fixes and other contributions.
• Tobias Oetiker for fixes to the timeout system.
• Jesse op den Brouw for the DB2 backend and survey and the parse_word_doc script.
• Marc Pohl for 8-bit clean patch for Solaris, other bug fixes.
• Arthur Prokosch for fixing problems with phrase searching.
• William Rhee for improving support with multiple excludes and restricts
• Jacques Reynes for updates to the whatsnew script.
• Robert Ribnitz and the Debian Project for maintaining the man pages.
• Chris-Jason Richards for fixing htnotify under sendmail.
• Phillippe Rochat for fixing whitespace detection in config files.
• Markus Röhricht for help debugging a database error under CygWin.
• Andrew Scherpbier for being the original author and leading the project.
• René Seindal for updates to the HTML parser and the timeout mechanism.
• Benjamin Smedberg for help with the ht://Dig website.
• Jan Sorensen for allowing parsing of 8-bit text without compiler options.
• Sylvain Wallez for the PDF parser.
• Randy Winch for contributing zlib document compression.
• And many others who made bug reports and suggested changes to the code!