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# E Credits

This appendix lists the developers, contributors, and supporters that have helped to make MySQL what it is today.

## E.1 Developers at MySQL AB

These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL AB to work on MySQL, roughly in the order they started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of the tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments they have made.

Michael (Monty) Widenius
  Has written the following parts of MySQL:
  - All the main code in `mysqld`.
  - New functions for the string library.
  - Most of the `mysys` library.
  - The `ISAM` and `MyISAM` libraries (B-tree index file handlers with index compression and different record formats).
  - The `HEAP` library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
  - The `replace` program (look into it, it's COOL!).
  - MyODBC, the ODBC driver for Windows95.
  - Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL. And also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
  - Porting of `mSQL` tools like `msqlperl`, `DBD`/`DBI`, and `DB2mysql`.
  - Most of crash-me and the foundation for the MySQL benchmarks.
David Axmark
  - Coordinator and initial main writer of the Reference Manual, including enhancements to `texi2html`.
  - Automatic Web site updating from the manual.
  - Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.
  - The licensing stuff.
  - Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the ``README'` is left. The rest ended up in the manual.)
  - Lots of testing of new features.
  - Our in-house ``free'' software lawyer.
  - Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it right...)
  - Our original portability code (more than 10 years old now). Nowadays only some parts of `mysys` are left.
  - Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got that new feature to work.
Jani Tolonen
  - `mysqlimport`
  - A lot of extensions to the `mysql` client.
  - `procedure analyse()`
Sinisa Milivojevic
  - Compression (with `zlib`) in the client/server protocol.
  - Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer phase.
  - The MySQLGUI client.
  - Maintainer of mysql++.
Tonu Samuel
  - Our security expert.
  - Vio interface (The foundation for the encrypted client/server protocol).
  - MySQL Filesystem (A way to use MySQL databases as files and directories).
  - The CASE Expression.
  - The MD5() and COALESCE() functions.
  - `RAID` support for `MyISAM` tables.
Sasha Pachev
  - Replication.
  - `SHOW CREATE TABLE`.
  - mod_mysql_include
  - cgi++
  - mysql-bench
Matt Wagner
  - MySQL test suite.
  - Our webmaster.
Miguel Solorzano
  - Winmysqladmin.
Timothy Smith
  - Dynamic character support.
  - Responsible for MySQL configure.
Sergei Golubchik
  - Full-text search.
  - Added keys to the `MERGE` library.
Jeremy Cole
  - Proofreading and editing this fine manual.
  - `ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ...`.
  - `UPDATE ... ORDER BY ...`.
  - `DELETE ... ORDER BY ...`.
John Dean
  - The new MySQL GUI client.
Indrek Siitan
  - Designer/programmer of our web interface.

The following non-developers are also working in/with MySQL AB:

  Hans Kierkegaard - Responsible for MySQL license handling.
  Antti Halonen - Sales manager.
  Jonas Norrman - Handles licensing questions sent to info@mysql.com.
  Erik Granberg - Handles MySQL partners (and a lot of other stuff).
  Allan Larsson (The BOSS for TCX DataKonsult AB).

## E.2 Contributors to MySQL

Contributors to the MySQL distribution are listed here, in somewhat random order:

Paul DuBois
  Help with making the Reference Manual correct and understandable. That includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English into English as other people know it.
Gianmassimo Vigazzola qwerg@mbox.vol.it or qwerg@tin.it
  The initial port to Win32/NT.
Kim Aldale
  Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into English.
Per Eric Olsson
  For more or less constructive criticism and real testing of the dynamic record format.
Irena Pancirov irena@mail.yacc.it
  Win32 port with Borland compiler. `mysqlshutdown.exe` and `mysqlwatch.exe`
David J. Hughes
  For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. We at TcX started with `mSQL`, but found that it couldn't satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote a SQL interface to our application builder Unireg. `mysqladmin` and `mysql` are programs that were largely influenced by their `mSQL` counterparts. We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of `mSQL`. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed from `mSQL` to make it easy to port free `mSQL` programs to MySQL. MySQL doesn't contain any code from `mSQL`. Two files in the distribution (``client/insert_test.c'` and ``client/select_test.c'`) are based on the corresponding (non-copyrighted) files in the `mSQL` distribution, but are modified as examples showing the changes necessary to convert code from `mSQL` to MySQL. (`mSQL` is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
Fred Fish
  For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a number of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional options).
Richard A. O'Keefe
  For his public domain string library.
Henry Spencer
  For his regex library, used in `WHERE column REGEXP regexp`.
Free Software Foundation
  From whom we got an excellent compiler (`gcc`), the `libc` library (from which we have borrowed ``strto.c'` to get some code working in Linux), and the `readline` library (for the `mysql` client).
Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
  For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at TcX/MySQL AB/detron.
Patrick Lynch
  For helping us acquire `http://www.mysql.com/`.
Fred Lindberg
  For setting up qmail to handle the MySQL mailing list and for the incredible help we got in managing the MySQL mailing lists.
Igor Romanenko igor@frog.kiev.ua
  `mysqldump` (previously `msqldump`, but ported and enhanced by Monty).
Yuri Dario
  For keeping up and extending the MySQL OS/2 port.
Tim Bunce, Alligator Descartes
  For the `DBD` (Perl) interface.
Tim Bunce
  Author of `mysqlhotcopy`.
Andreas Koenig a.koenig@mind.de
  For the Perl interface to MySQL.
Eugene Chan eugene@acenet.com.sg
  For porting PHP to MySQL.
Michael J. Miller Jr. mke@terrapin.turbolift.com
  For the first MySQL manual. And a lot of spelling/language fixes for the FAQ (that turned into the MySQL manual a long time ago).
Yan Cailin
  First translator of the MySQL Reference Manual into simplified chinese in early 2000 on which the Big5 and HK coded ( mysql.hitstar.com) versions were based. Personal home page at linuxdb.yeah.net.
Giovanni Maruzzelli maruzz@matrice.it
  For porting iODBC (Unix ODBC).
Chris Provenzano
  Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product includes software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of California, Berkeley, and contributors. We are currently using version 1_60_beta6 patched by Monty (see ``mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql'`).
Xavier Leroy Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr
  The author of LinuxThreads (used by MySQL on Linux).
Zarko Mocnik zarko.mocnik@dem.si
  Sorting for Slovenian language and the ``cset.tar.gz'` module that makes it easier to add other character sets.
"TAMITO" tommy@valley.ne.jp
  The `_MB` character set macros and the ujis and sjis character sets.
Joshua Chamas joshua@chamas.com
  Base for concurrent insert, extended date syntax, debugging on NT, and answering on the MySQL mailing list.
Yves Carlier Yves.Carlier@rug.ac.be
  `mysqlaccess`, a program to show the access rights for a user.
Rhys Jones rhys@wales.com (And GWE Technologies Limited)
  For the JDBC, a module to extract data from MySQL with a Java client.
Dr Xiaokun Kelvin ZHU X.Zhu@brad.ac.uk
  Further development of the JDBC driver and other MySQL-related Java tools.
James Cooper pixel@organic.com
  For setting up a searchable mailing list archive at his site.
Rick Mehalick Rick_Mehalick@i-o.com
  For `xmysql`, a graphical X client for MySQL.
Doug Sisk sisk@wix.com
  For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux.
Diemand Alexander V. axeld@vial.ethz.ch
  For providing RPM packages of MySQL for RedHat Linux-Alpha.
Antoni Pamies Olive toni@readysoft.es
  For providing RPM versions of a lot of MySQL clients for Intel and SPARC.
Jay Bloodworth jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us
  For providing RPM versions for MySQL Version 3.21.
Jochen Wiedmann wiedmann@neckar-alb.de
  For maintaining the Perl `DBD::mysql` module.
Therrien Gilbert gilbert@ican.net, Jean-Marc Pouyot jmp@scalaire.fr
  French error messages.
Petr snajdr, snajdr@pvt.net
  Czech error messages.
Jaroslaw Lewandowski jotel@itnet.com.pl
  Polish error messages.
Miguel Angel Fernandez Roiz
  Spanish error messages.
Roy-Magne Mo rmo@www.hivolda.no
  Norwegian error messages and testing of Version 3.21.#.
Timur I. Bakeyev root@timur.tatarstan.ru
  Russian error messages.
brenno@dewinter.com && Filippo Grassilli phil@hyppo.com
  Italian error messages.
Dirk Munzinger dirk@trinity.saar.de
  German error messages.
Billik Stefan billik@sun.uniag.sk
  Slovak error messages.
Stefan Saroiu tzoompy@cs.washington.edu
  Romanian error messages.
Peter Feher
  Hungarian error messages.
Roberto M. Serqueira
  Portugise error messages.
Carsten H. Pedersen
  Danish error messages
David Sacerdote davids@secnet.com
  Ideas for secure checking of DNS hostnames.
Wei-Jou Chen jou@nematic.ieo.nctu.edu.tw
  Some support for Chinese(BIG5) characters.
Wei He hewei@mail.ied.ac.cn
  A lot of functionality for the Chinese(GBK) character set.
Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
  `FROM_UNIXTIME()` time formatting, `ENCRYPT()` functions, and `bison` advisor. Active mailing list member.
Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
  Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to `DBI`/`DBD`. Have been of great help with `crash-me` and running benchmarks. Some new date functions. The mysql_setpermissions script.
Jay Flaherty fty@mediapulse.com
  Big parts of the Perl `DBI`/`DBD` section in the manual.
Paul Southworth pauls@etext.org, Ray Loyzaga yar@cs.su.oz.au
  Proof-reading of the Reference Manual.
Alexis Mikhailov root@medinf.chuvashia.su
  User-definable functions (UDFs); `CREATE FUNCTION` and `DROP FUNCTION`.
Andreas F. Bobak bobak@relog.ch
  The `AGGREGATE` extension to UDF functions.
Ross Wakelin R.Wakelin@march.co.uk
  Help to set up InstallShield for MySQL-Win32.
Jethro Wright III jetman@li.net
  The ``libmysql.dll'` library.
James Pereria jpereira@iafrica.com
  Mysqlmanager, a Win32 GUI tool for administrating MySQL.
Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca
  Porting of MIT-pthreads to NetBSD/Alpha and NetBSD 1.3/i386.
Antony T. Curtis antony.curtis@olcs.net
  Porting of MySQL to OS/2.
Martin Ramsch m.ramsch@computer.org
  Examples in the MySQL Tutorial.
Steve Harvey
  For making `mysqlaccess` more secure.
Konark IA-64 Centre of Persistent Systems Private Limited
  http://www.pspl.co.in/konark/. Help with the Win64 port of the MySQL server.
Albert Chin-A-Young.
  Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers support.
John Birrell
  Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2.

Other contributors, bugfinders, and testers: James H. Thompson, Maurizio Menghini, Wojciech Tryc, Luca Berra, Zarko Mocnik, Wim Bonis, Elmar Haneke, jehamby@lightside, psmith@BayNetworks.com, duane@connect.com.au, Ted Deppner ted@psyber.com, Mike Simons, Jaakko Hyvatti.

And lots of bug report/patches from the folks on the mailing list.

A big tribute goes to those that help us answer questions on the `mysql@lists.mysql.com` mailing list:

Daniel Koch dkoch@amcity.com
  Irix setup.
Luuk de Boer luuk@wxs.nl
  Benchmark questions.
Tim Sailer tps@users.buoy.com
  `DBD-mysql` questions.
Boyd Lynn Gerber gerberb@zenez.com
  SCO-related questions.
Richard Mehalick RM186061@shellus.com
  `xmysql`-related questions and basic installation questions.
Zeev Suraski bourbon@netvision.net.il
  Apache module configuration questions (log & auth), PHP-related questions, SQL syntax-related questions and other general questions.
Francesc Guasch frankie@citel.upc.es
  General questions.
Jonathan J Smith jsmith@wtp.net
  Questions pertaining to OS-specifics with Linux, SQL syntax, and other things that might need some work.
David Sklar sklar@student.net
  Using MySQL from PHP and Perl.
Alistair MacDonald A.MacDonald@uel.ac.uk
  Not yet specified, but is flexible and can handle Linux and maybe HP-UX. Will try to get user to use `mysqlbug`.
John Lyon jlyon@imag.net
  Questions about installing MySQL on Linux systems, using either ``.rpm'` files or compiling from source.
Lorvid Ltd. lorvid@WOLFENET.com
  Simple billing/license/support/copyright issues.
Patrick Sherrill patrick@coconet.com
  ODBC and VisualC++ interface questions.
Randy Harmon rjharmon@uptimecomputers.com
  `DBD`, Linux, some SQL syntax questions.

## E.3 Supporters to MySQL

The following companies has helped us finance development of MySQL by either paying us for developing a new feature, developed a MySQL feature themselves or by giving us hardware for MySQL development.

VA Linux / Andover.net
  Funded replication.
NuSphere
  Editing of the MySQL manual.
Stork Design studio
  The MySQL web site in use between 1998-2000.
Intel
  Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.
Compaq
  Contributed to Development on Linux/Alpha.
SWSoft
  Development on the embedded `mysqld` version.
FutureQuest
  `--skip-show-variables`

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