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Earlier this morning, I decided to google for 'MonoDevelop' and see what turns up, potentially a bit egotistical, but I was interested. Doing this I turned up something interesting I'd like to comment on.

I noticed in a couple places Ben Maurer was cited as 'doing MonoDevelop' for lack of a better term. Now, not to belittle Ben's contributions to the project (which are numerous), he is by no means the only contributor doing a lot of work, he just happens to be the loudest (or second loudest, not quite sure ;) ). I would like to take a bit of space to give some credit to the other contributors, without whom MonoDevelop would never have made it off my hard drive, and certainly not to the state it is in today. Note, this list is in no specific order, and neither does it cover everyone, as we have received some patches from our testing users.

jluke, who has probably touched almost every piece of the port so far, has done things including porting the statusbar, making our web control work (embedding mozilla no less), and most recently turning our build system to autotools. He also did a huge chunk of our file browser, basically he has been all over the codebase.

jba, who has helped in two key areas. First he did the initial porting of the option panels, and has helped making sure those options are respected. He has also attempted to bring somewhat of a team oriented development process with lots of comments, and all that fun stuff.

dkor, our 'glazing' guy as he likes to put it. He has run through a lot of the gui pieces of our code, and gladed them up, and made them a lot prettier and HIG compliant. He also ported over the Insert Color stuff and turned up a bit of a (now fixed) gtk# bug.

orph, who has been in brazil for a while (hopefully doing well), when we first started porting in late december, orph was instrumental in pointing me in the right direction repeatedly with gtk help and advice.

And last, but certainly not least, pedro, basically my partner in crime back in late december/early january. pedro was the first contributor outside of myself, he was actually the reason I had to put the sources into a SVN repo so someone else could work on them too. He ported the old text editor, and has done a lot of other pieces as well, including the project browser, the class browser, and the preliminary compile support.

I guess my point in writing the second piece is just that no one person deserves recognition any more or less than many others. The entire effort has been team based from the beginning and will continue to be so in the future.