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http://bitcoin.org/ official site currently lists developers as:

    * Satoshi Nakamoto
    * Gavin Andresen - (PGP)
    * Pieter Wuille
    * Nils Schneider - nils.schneider@gmail.com (PGP)
    * Jeff Garzik - jgarzik@exmulti.com (PGP)

Latest http://archive.org/ snapshot (http://web.archive.org/web/20110729025807/http://www.bitcoin.org/) shows developers as:

    * Satoshi Nakamoto
    * Gavin Andresen - (PGP)
    * Amir Taaki - (PGP)
    * Pieter Wuille
    * Nils Schneider - nils.schneider@gmail.com
    * Jeff Garzik - jgarzik@exmulti.com (PGP)

which removes Amir Taaki's (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.github.com/commit/8d51c0e2725422ed4a3c0a35d22775f1cca86dd8) name from the list.

The site links to open source Bitcoin repository at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

and latest commits in that repository for each of those listed are:

Satoshi Nakamoto: 2010-12-15
Gavin Andresen: 2011-09-02
Pieter Wuille: 2011-08-03
Nils Schneider: 2011-06-03
Jeff Garzik: 2011-09-02
Amir Taaki: ???
Matt Corallo: 2011-09-02
Daniel Folkinshteyn: 2011-09-02
Giel van Schijdnel: 2011-08-11
Fabian H jr.: 2011-08-16
ovdeathiam: 2011-08-22
Dev Random: 2011-08-23
Michal Zima: 2011-08-17
Venkatesh Srinivas: 2011-08-07
Vegard Nossum: 2011-07-31
JoelKatz: 2011-07-26
Johannes Henninger: 2011-08-01
Jeroenz0r: 2011-08-01
Han Lin Yap: 2011-07-30
Wladimir J. van der Laan: 2011-07-26
Abraham Jewowich: 2011-07-18
Michael Bemmerl: 2011-07-17
Eric Hosmer: 2011-07-16
Dawid Spiechowicz: 2011-07-14
Stephanie Gimenez: 2011-07-14
Patrick Varilly: 2011-07-14
Jay Weisskopf: 2011-07-13
Doug Huff: 2011-06-30
Dylan Noblesmith: 2011-06-24
James Burkle: 2011-06-24
Jordan Lewis: 2011-05-16
Dean Lee: 2011-06-09
xHire: 2011-05-26
HostFat: 2011-05-26
Jakob Kramer: 2011-05-26
ariel: 2011-05-25
dabaopku: 2011-05-22
Federico Faggiano: 2011-05-20
m0ray: 2011-05-24
Danube: 2011-05-25
Carlos Pizarro: 2011-05-15
Blitzboom: 2011-05-17
Anonymous: 2011-05-18
mewantsbitcoins: 2011-05-14
Daniel Holbert: 2011-05-09
Jaromil: 2011-04-23
Carlo Alberto Ferraris: 2011-05-07
Forrest Voight: 2011-05-08
Amir Yalon: 2011-05-06
John Maguire: 2011-05-05
Ricardo M. Correia: 2011-04-23
Dan Helfman: 2011-04-16
gjs278: 2011-04-13
Dan Loewenherz: 2011-04-13
tcatm: 2011-04-09
Eric Swanson: 2011-03-20
Santiago M. Mola: 2011-03-16
Sven Slootweg: 2011-03-19
Luke Dashjr: 2011-01-28
Matt Giuca: 2011-02-25
ojab: 2011-01-31
sandos: 2011-02-10
David FRANCOIS: 2011-02-03
Chris Moore: 2011-01-25
Marius Hanne: 2011-01-19
Chris: 2011-01-20
Witchspace: 2010-12-24
laszloh: 2010-08-04
sirius-m: 2010-02-04

(I may have missed some, sorriez, please let me know if I have)

I see that Amir Taaki has 0 commits to the repository (but a few pull requests (http://is.gd/5s99U5)) and therefore makes sense that he is removed from the developer list in that regard.

How come only a select few of the developers that DO have commits are listed on the main page?  What is the procedure necessary to deserve accreditation or recognition?  Perhaps it may be useful to have a page on the site that credits everyone that has contributed so that each person may deserve their fair share of recognition for their contributions?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Developers
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/People

I've always like how git does it: http://git-scm.com/about

output of "git shortlog --summary --numbered --no-merges"

thanks, also to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41456.msg505106#msg505106



It would be exciting if contributions were displayed similarly.  Bitcoin is open source community effort.  Contributors should deserve better support/recognition for their contributions.   Currently only a select few are gaining recognition and attention from being listed at bitcoin.org home page.

Good idea.

The developers listed on bitcoin.org are the people who have 'push' rights to the github source tree, but I like the git approach.

Who wants to volunteer to make it happen?

*bump*

If you mean a PHP file that parses Git repository and produces a list of developers, categorized and sorted - I can do it.

Tell me what you need.

There's a lot of git repositories to include in that... http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/ has a list

wow, luke_bitgit@dashjr.org owns a lot of repositories, including:

http://tcatm.github.com/bitcoin-js-remote
http://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools
https://github.com/phantomcircuit/bitcoin-alt

all of which seem to not actually be owned by luke_bitgit@dashjr.org ._.

Perhaps that list is simply syndicated and recreated git repos.

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Here's list of original repos:

Bitcoin Wallet Android app
git://github.com/chromicant/Bitcoin-Wallet.git

An Android widget that shows the value of a bitcoin in US dollars on the Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange.
git://github.com/gostaj/MtGoxWidget.git

A Bitcoin network protocol implementation
git://github.com/cdecker/BitDroid-Network.git

Bitcoin-Control-Panel
git://github.com/mizerydearia/Bitcoin-Control-Panel.git

Sources for Bitcoin Poker Room
git://github.com/hippich/Bitcoin-Poker-Room.git

A thin Android client for Bitcoin
git://github.com/opposablebrain/BitcoinDroid.git

OpenCL miner for BitCoin
git://github.com/Diablo-D3/DiabloMiner.git

Firefox extension displaying current Bitcoin prices
git://github.com/frewsxcv/Bitcoin-Prices.git

A Bitcoin wallet, backup, and miner manager
git://github.com/Fnordsoft/Bitcoin-Projects.git

Modular, fast, efficient Bitcoin miner
git://github.com/jedi95/Phoenix-Miner.git

unfinished bitcoin android client
git://github.com/dirtyfilthy/bitcoin-wallet.git

Bitcoin Private Key Extractor
git://github.com/dirtyfilthy/bc_key.git

BitCoin Money Making Game
git://gitorious.org/bcmmg/mainline.git

XMPP/Bitcoin gateway
git://gitorious.org/bitcoim/gateway.git

Open source chain browser like Block Explorer
git://github.com/jtobey/bitcoin-abe.git

bitcoin-alt
git://github.com/phantomcircuit/bitcoin-alt.git

Set of bash functions for bitcoin address manipulation
git://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools.git

Bitcoin Central
git://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central.git

A wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol
git://github.com/blueCommand/bitcoin-dissector.git

spec file for bitcoin cryptocurrency program
git://github.com/sneakatdatavibe/bitcoin-el5-rpm.git

Ruby library for communicating with a Bitcoin client
git://github.com/requnix/bitcoin.git

An open source generic exchange for bitcoin
git://github.com/famulus/bitcoin-generic-exchange.git

Javascript remote for bitcoind
git://github.com/tcatm/bitcoin-js-remote.git

Wallet Impl on Android
git://github.com/bitcoin-labs/bitcoin-mobile-android.git

Bitcoin library for PHP
git://github.com/mikegogulski/bitcoin-php.git

BitCoin perl implementation
git://gitorious.org/bitcoin/bitcoin-pl.git

Friendly bitcoin API binding for Python
git://github.com/toomanysecrets0/bitcoin-python.git

Bitcoin payment plugin for VirtueMart shopping cart for Joomla!
git://github.com/mikegogulski/bitcoin-virtuemart.git

Bitcoin payment plugin for WP e-Commerce for WordPress
git://github.com/mikegogulski/bitcoin-wp-e-commerce.git

bitcoin for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPodTouch)
git://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp.git

BitCoin Bugzilla Extension
git://github.com/darkskiez/bitcoinbugzilla.git

Bitcoin integration/staging tree
git://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git

add bitcoin to your rails app
git://github.com/danneu/bitcoiner.git

This Sinatra application provides a REST interface for the Bitcoin server daemon.
git://github.com/benmanns/bitcoinrest.git

Python-based tools for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency system
git://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools.git

A prediction market in bitcoin
git://github.com/kiba/bitpredict.git

Bitcoin acceptance plugin for facebook.com applications
git://github.com/kaioless/btc2fb.git

a naming/aliasing service for Bitcoin user
git://github.com/0x10/BTCnames.git

btfeature
git://gitorious.org/bitcoin/btfeature.git

Set of PHP classes to interact with bitcoin nodes. (Work In Progress)
git://github.com/alemansec/btlink.git

bitcoin client in chrome
git://github.com/kiba/chrome-bitcoin.git

CPU miner for bitcoin
git://github.com/jgarzik/cpuminer.git

Drupal Module to provide a CCK field type to hold and validate Bitcoin Addresses
git://github.com/DarrellDuane/btc_address.git

Drupal API and tools for Mt. Gox Bitcoin Trading API
git://github.com/DarrellDuane/mtgox.git

Eligius statistics pages, originally by Artefact2
git://gitorious.org/bitcoin/eligius-stats.git

GAE Bitcoin Miner
git://github.com/j16sdiz/gaeminer.git

gentoo linux ebuild for bitcoin
git://gitorious.org/bitcoin/gentoo.git

bitcoin exchange site
git://gitorious.org/intersango/master.git

Merchants {post,withdraw} invoices, customers {search}. Intended for mobile Bitcoin payments without QR codes or near-field wireless.
git://github.com/tafa/invoice-matcher.git

bitcoin library
git://gitorious.org/libbitcoin/libbitcoin.git

Multi-pool, multi-worker proxy for Bitcoin miners, supporting long polling and pool failover
git://github.com/cdhowie/Bitcoin-mining-proxy.git

ruby client for the mtgox api
git://github.com/paulasmuth/mtgox-ruby.git

Bitcoin client library in JavaScript using Node.js / MongoDB
git://github.com/justmoon/node-bitcoin.git

A NodeJS library of Bitcoin components. (And eventually, a full client made from them.)
git://github.com/andrewschaaf/node-bitcoin-impl.git

Bitcoin client API and related utilities
git://github.com/jb55/node-bitcoin.git

OpenCL bitcoin miner — Read more
git://github.com/tcatm/oclminer.git

Catalyst::Model::Bitcoin
git://github.com/hippich/Catalyst--Model--Bitcoin.git

General purpose PHP5 classes for Bitcoin account and address management.
git://github.com/m0Ray/bitcoin_account.git

A web-based administration tool for managing bitcoin nodes.
git://github.com/aceat64/phpMyBitcoin.git

PyOpenCL bitcoin miner
git://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm.git

Import of puddinpop's bitcoin remote pooled mining code
git://github.com/doublec/bitcoin-pool.git

bitcoin push-mining pool server.
git://github.com/jgarzik/pushpool.git

Python Conversion of the Bitcoin Client
git://github.com/lachesis/pybitcoin.git

XMPP/Bitcoin gateway (the lib part)
git://gitorious.org/bitcoim/python-bitcoim.git

A Bitcoin client written in Ruby, presented as a library.
git://github.com/andrew12/ruby-bitcoin.git

Bitcoin payment plugin for Ubercart shopping cart for Drupal
git://github.com/mikegogulski/uc_bitcoin.git


And a few more that I am aware of:

btfeature
git@gitorious.org:btfeature/btfeature.git

spesmilo
git://gitorious.org/bitcoin/spesmilo.git

vibanko
git://gitorious.org/vibanko/vibanko.git

GLBSE client
git://gitorious.org/black-market/black-market-client.git

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Also, I can possibly volunteer to make it happen.

Regarding the additional repos referenced above (as well as all other bitcoin-related repos), would it make sense to include on the home page committers from each additional repo (see above) or would it be better to preserve only using the single http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin repo?  Perhaps if listing only commiters of the single http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin repo on the home page, then a link directly below it to a list of additional repos could be included that also lists committers of those additional repos?

Ok, I've managed to get the list of commits. It is returned by pages, here's an example of the first page:

http://qbizy.com/commits.php

I guess I also need to get closed pull requests and categorize developers into those who make commits and those who make pulls, right?

This is obviously too slow to be done on every page load, so the ideal solution would be to run it by cron from time to time and store stats in a database.
Then display them from the database on each page load.

Do you have a database installed at bitcoin.org? It can be done through files, but database is more reliable and flexible than files.

EDIT: And here are the closed pull requests:

http://qbizy.com/pulls.php

Here's the results of processing 5 pages of commits:

http://qbizy.com/devs.php

Does this look like a correct distribution? :)

Ok, here are combined statistics on commits and pulls for 5 pages each:

http://qbizy.com/devs2.php

The page takes about 10 seconds to load, so be patient.

Alexz: Wouldn't it be easier to just use the "git shortlog" command? It can show the commit count per author (see my previous post).

The only problem is that the same author can appear under different names (e.g. in the output above: s_nakamoto, Satoshi Nakamoto and --author=Satoshi Nakamoto (which was some command line mistake im sure :P )). The .mailmap feature might be able to solve this though. See bottom of http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html

The API docs are closed for maintenance, so I had to piece info bit-by-bit from other sources :)

I am completely new to Git's API, so I did what I found. If there's a better way - that's great!
I will check it out when the docs server will be back from maintenance.

BTW, by "git shortlog" did you mean OS command by any chance?

And this is the final version with database support:

http://qbizy.com/show.php

Results are displayed from the database, which is filled by processing all 27 pages of commits and 32 pages of closed pull requests.

Can somebody do a sanity check on this? To me it looks a bit strange, maybe I've made an error somewhere...

Yeah I meant the normal OS command. Here is a cached version of the docs: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fwJsXAH-4yUJ:www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-shortlog.html

But it looks like you are already done. Nice work!

Well, I did a web version that scans live git repository, you don't need to download it.

Also it might be more suitable for web sites than the OS-bound version.

Ideally, there should be a simple script that scans all the Bitcoin repositories, tallies them up, and writes a static file for the webpage, put in a cronjob maybe once a week.

Any progress on this?

Are you asking me? :)

I have this feature in my development branch and I'm going to push the changes to bitcoin.org within the next days.

Here's a screenshot. Should I have missed any aliases let me know and I'll add them.

https://i.imgur.com/5fTGr.png

List of authors of over 100 bitcoin patches, sorted by patch count (most patches first):

• Con Kolivas aka "conman"
• Gavin Andresen
• Amir Taaki aka "genjix"
• "Kiba"
• Satoshi Nakamoto
• Jeff Garzik
• David FRANCOIS
• Luke Dashjr
• Pavel Karoukin
• Nils Schneider aka "tcatm"
• "davux"
• John Tobey
• Daniel Folkinshteyn
• Patrick McFarland
• Patrick Strateman aka "phantomcircuit"
• Matt Corallo aka "BlueMatt"
• Pieter Wuille aka "sipa"
• "m0mchil"
• "Artefact2"
• Ehud Ben-Reuven

Live at http://188.138.99.158/ (hopefully soon on bitcoin.org). It's updated daily via a cronjob.

Source code: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org

Feel free to make pull requests to improve it. You can even extend it with jekyll plugins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin lists only a few developers for Bitcoin.  Perhaps it would be useful to include everyone's name there?

Looks like someone did that and it now includes people who didn't contribute a single line of code to the satoshi client (which the little box is all about).

Maybe you can ignore merges when counting number of commits, as these rarely contribute code themselves?

hmm, perhaps the Bitcoin article should be renamed to Bitcoin client to reflect that it is about the client and not about Bitcoin?  -or- split the article into two, one about the satoshi client and another about Bitcoin in general?  That should prevent confusion regarding names of people since there are many separate developments for bitcoin in which all such developments are developed by developers.

Actually, the article probably should be about the concept/protocol/network, and not the client. What makes the Satoshi client notable? Pretty sure all the notable sources talk about Bitcoin itself, not some client.

I'm using github's API: https://github.com/api/v2/json/repos/show/bitcoin/bitcoin/contributors/anon

Which is why your results are wrong (missing every contribution not part of that client).

Here are my results over 100 without merges counted (Pieter Wuille falls off with only 95):Who is Jeremy Ashkenas? O.o

Edit: Looks like someone added CoffeeScript to BitGit. I don't see how it's Bitcoin-related and it was added with a typo'd name and non-valid email, so I'm deleting it...

Here's a coffeescript-free merge-free commit count:

Is the idea of listing other bitcoin developers on the bitcoin.org home page undesirable or unacceptable?

I see Wladimir J. van der Laan - laanwj@gmail.com was added.  Will the bitcoin.org site ever give recognition to all developers that have contributed to the bitcoin.org bitcoin release or only provide recognition to a select few that have been privileged/accepted?

Curiosity on this, because I notice these threads regarding the devs.  Are some just not wanting to be listed?   

Comparison of projects:

Projects that credit very few developers/contributors:
bitcoin (http://bitcoin.org/) (see entry below)
xmonad (http://xmonad.org/community.html)

Projects that credit many or all developers/contributors:
bitcoin (http://bitcoin.org/about.html)
fluxbox (http://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git/tree/AUTHORS)
gentoo developers (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/roll-call/userinfo.xml)
github (https://github.com/about)
gnu (http://www.gnu.org/people/people.html)
jquery (http://jquery.org/team/)
libreoffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/credits/)
memcached (http://memcached.org/about)
opensim (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Development_Team)
openwrt (https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/people)
php (http://php.net/credits.php)
seamonkey (http://www.seamonkey-project.org/about)
xfce (http://xfce.org/about/credits)

Projects that do not noticeably credit anyone:
abiword (http://www.abisource.com/)
apache (http://httpd.apache.org/)
atheme (http://www.atheme.org/)
chromium (http://www.chromium.org/Home)
dd-wrt (http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index)
django (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
gimp (http://www.gimp.org/)
gitorious (http://gitorious.org/about)
gnome (http://www.gnome.org/about/)
haskell (http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell)
kde (http://kde.org/)
keepass (http://keepass.info/) / keepassx (http://www.keepassx.org/)
lighttpd (http://www.lighttpd.net/)
linux (http://kernel.org/)
mozilla firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/about/)
mysql (http://mysql.com/)
nginx (http://nginx.org/)
node.js (http://nodejs.org/)
perl (http://www.perl.org/)
python (http://www.python.org/)
ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/)
vim (http://www.vim.org/about.php)

if I made any mistakes or missed any, feel free to correct, however, I think these examples are useful to better explain my concern for better crediting those that deserve credit if any credit is documented/publicized at all.

I added bitcoin twice after being pointed out that there is a second page that credits contributors.