-*-text-*- Main Developers: ---------------- Robin Clark wrote the original X-Accountant in Motif as a school project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997. Linas Vepstas liked what he saw: the GUI was slick, the code was documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. And so he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an account hierarchy, split out a transaction mini-engine, add support for stocks, and spiff up the help menus. This was version 1.0 as of January 1998. Since then, for version 1.1, the engine was expanded & refined, and the register window code completely redesigned and made mostly Motif-(and GUI-)independent. Did some prototype OFX work. Jeremy Collins publicized the GnoMoney project widely and broadly, and then changed its name to GnuCash. Jeremy created the gnucash.org web site, registered the domain, got the initial GTK/gnome code working. Rob Browning abused everyone for not using perl, and then added guile/scheme support. Rob maintains the build infrastructure, is handling the whole guile/perl extension language thing, and is dealing with configuration & configurability. Dave Peticolas hacks obsessively on GnuCash. But he can stop anytime he wants to. Really. Bill Gribble works magic. If your checks print wrong, blame him. If you don't like the amount printed on your checks, blame him. If you don't like your your bank balances, your bank, or your life, blame him too. Fixes & Patches: ---------------- Andrew Arensburger for FreeBSD & other patches Matt Armstrong for misc fixes Fred Baube for attempted Java port/MoneyDance Dennis Björklund Swedish translation Per Bojsen several core dump fixes Terry Boldt financial calculator and expression parser Simon Britnell patch to RPM spec Christopher B. Browne for perl and lots of scheme Bill Carlson performance improvements Graham Chapman for the xacc-rpts addon package George Chen for MS-Money QIF's & fixes Albert Chin-A-Young configure.in patch Jeremey Collins for GnoMoney & GTK port Matthew Condell FreeBSD patch Patrick Condron for webserver and T1 connection. Ciaran Deignan for AIX binary version Glen Ditchfield updated documentation Tyson Dowd for config/make patches & debian maint Koen D'Hondt for Solaris patches to XmHTML Bob Drzyzgula for budgeting design notes Paul Fenwick ASX support, Finance::Quote Hubert Figuiere patch to gnc-prices Valek Filippov Russian translation Jan-Uwe Finck for German message translation Kevin Finn auto-decimal point patch, options patch Ron Forrester for gnome patches Dave Freese for leap-year fix John Goerzen file i/o fix for 64-bit architectures Bill Gribble qif importation code Otto Hammersmith for RedHat RPM version Eric Hanchrow updated currency documentation Alexandru Harsanyi for core dumps, lockups, gtk work John Hasler engine patch Jon Kåre Hellan misc core dump fixes Prakash Kailasa for gnome build fixes Alexey Kakunin quickfill patch for cyrillic Ben Kelly for motif menu bug fix, core dump fixes Tom Kludy for SGI Irix port Sven Kuenzler for SuSE README file Bryan Larsen guile budget report Graham Leggett for fixing a hang Ted Lemon for NetBSD port Yannick Le Ny pour la traduction en francais Grant Likely gnome and engine patches Heath Martin gnome patches, major register work Matt Martin guile error handling code Robert Graham Merkel reporting, gnome, and config patches Christopher Molnar build system patch Tim Mooney port to alpha-dec-osf4.0f G. Allen Morris III for QIF core dump Steven Murdoch gnc-prices fix for London exchange Brent Neal TIAA-CREF support. Peter Norton for a valiant attempt at a GTK port OmNiBuS web site graphics & content Gordon Oliver multiple currency status line patch Myroslav Opyr for misc patches Dave Peticolas extensive intelligent patches Laurent P{'e}lecq i18n patches with gettext Alain Peyrat for configure.in patches Peter Pointner QIF import fixes, Qt patches Gavin Porter for euro style dates Tomas Pospisek debian patches Ron Record for SCO Unixware & OpenServer binaries Keith Refson Solaris fixes Dirk Schoenberger Qt/KDE work Jan Schrage documentation patches Christopher Seawood for XbaeMatrix core dump Alessandro Seveso Italian translations Mike Simons misc configure.in patches Richard Skelton for Solaris cleanup Henning Spruth for German text & euro date rework Robby Stephenson register & file history patches Herbert Thoma gnome register & euro support patches Diane Trout scheme qif import patch Richard Wackerbarth patch to gnc-prices, qif import fixes Rob Walker guile and register patches David Woodhouse Great Britain translations Ken Yamaguchi QIF import fixes; MYM import Shimpei Yamashita Japanese translation ... and I am sure that I have missed many others ...