It takes a village

As a prolific maintainer of several dozen FOSS projects, I’m often asked how I can get so much done, being just one person. The answer is: I’m not just one person. I have enjoyed the help of thousands of talented people who have contributed to these works. Without them, none of the projects I work on would be successful.

I’d like to take a moment to recognize and thank all of the people who have participated in these endeavours. If you’ve enjoyed any of the projects I’ve worked on, you owe thanks to some of these wonderful people. The following is an incomplete list of authors who have contributed to one or more of the projects I have started:

A Mak

A. M. Joseph

a3v

Aaron Bieber

Aaron Holmes

Aaron Ouellette

Abdelhakim Qbaich

absrd

Ace Eldeib

Adam Kürthy

Adam Mizerski

Aditya Mahajan

Aditya Srivastava

Adnan Maolood

Adrusi

ael-code

agr

Aidan Epstein

Aidan Harris

Ajay R

Ajay Raghavan

Alain Greppin

Aleksa Sarai

Aleksander Usov

Aleksei Bavshin

Aleksis

Alessio

Alex Cordonnier

Alex Maese

Alex McGrath

Alex Roman

alex wennerberg

Alex Xu

Alexander ‘z33ky’ Hirsch

Alexander Bakker

Alexander Dzhoganov

Alexander Harkness

Alexander Johnson

Alexander Taylor

Alexandre Oliveira

Alexey Yerin

Aljaz Gantar

Alynx Zhou

Alyssa Ross

Amin Bandali

amingin

Amir Yalon

Ammar Askar

Ananth Bhaskararaman

Anders

Andreas Rammhold

Andres Erbsen

Andrew Conrad

Andrew Jeffery

Andrew Leap

Andrey Kuznetsov

Andri Yngvason

Andy Dulson

andyleap

Anirudh Oppiliappan

Anjandev Momi

Anthony Super

Anton Gusev

Antonin Décimo

aouelete

apt-ghetto

ARaspiK

Arav K

Ariadna Vigo

Ariadne Conill

Ariel Costas

Ariel Popper

Arkadiusz Hiler

Armaan Bhojwani

Armin Preiml

Armin Weigl

Arnaud Vallette d’Osia

Arsen Arsenović

Art Wild

Arthur Gautier

Arto Jonsson

Arvin Ignaci

ascent12

asdfjkluiop

Asger Hautop Drewsen

ash lea

Ashkan Kiani

Ashton Kemerling

athrungithub

Atnanasi

Aviv Eyal

ayaka

azarus

bacardi55

barfoo1

Bart Pelle

Bart Post

Bartłomiej Burdukiewicz

bbielsa

BearzRobotics

Ben Boeckel

Ben Brown

Ben Burwell

Ben Challenor

Ben Cohen

Ben Fiedler

Ben Harris

Benjamin Cheng

Benjamin Halsted

Benjamin Lowry

Benjamin Riefenstahl

Benoit Gschwind

berfr

bilgorajskim

Bill Doyle

Birger Schacht

Bjorn Neergaard

Björn Esser

blha303

bn4t

Bob Ham

bobtwinkles

boos1993

Bor Grošelj Simić

boringcactus

Brandon Dowdy

BrassyPanache

Brendan Buono

Brendon Smith

Brian Ashworth

Brian Clemens

Brian McKenna

Bruno Pinto

bschacht

BTD Master

buffet

burrowing-owl

Byron Torres

calcdude84se

Caleb Bassi

Callum Brown

Calvin Lee

Cameron Nemo

camoz

Campbell Vertesi

Cara Salter

Carlo Abelli

Cassandra McCarthy

Cedric Sodhi

Chang Liu

Charles E. Lehner

Charlie Stanton

Charmander

chickendude

chr0me

Chris Chamberlain

Chris Kinniburgh

Chris Morgan

Chris Morris

Chris Vittal

Chris Waldon

Chris Young

Christoph Gysin

Christopher M. Riedl

Christopher Vittal

chtison

Clar Charr

Clayton Craft

Clément Joly

cnt0

coderkun

Cole Helbling

Cole Mickens

columbarius

comex

Connor Edwards

Connor Kuehl

Conrad Hoffmann

Cormac Stephenson

Cosimo Cecchi

cra0zy

crondog

Cuber

curiousleo

Cyril Levis

Cédric Bonhomme

Cédric Cabessa

Cédric Hannotier

D.B

dabio

Dacheng Gao

Damien Tardy-Panis

Dan ELKOUBY

Dan Robertson

Daniel Bridges

Daniel De Graaf

Daniel Eklöf

Daniel Gröber

Daniel Kessler

Daniel Kondor

Daniel Lockyer

Daniel Lublin

Daniel Martí

Daniel Otero

Daniel P

Daniel Sockwell

Daniel V

Daniel V.

Daniel Vidmar

Daniel Xu

Daniil

Danilo

Danilo Spinella

Danny Bautista

Dark Rift

Darksun

Dave Cottlehuber

David Arnold

David Blajda

David Eklov

David Florness

David Hurst

David Kraeutmann

David Krauser

David Zero

David96

db

dbandstra

dece

delthas

Denis Doria

Denis Laxalde

Dennis Fischer

Dennis Schridde

Derek Smith

Devin J. Pohly

Devon Johnson

Dhruvin Gandhi

Di Ma

Dian M Fay

Diane

Diederik de Haas

Dillen Meijboom

Dimitris Triantafyllidis

Dizigma

Dmitri Kourennyi

Dmitry Borodaenko

Dmitry Kalinkin

dogwatch

Dominik Honnef

Dominique Martinet

Donnie West

Dorota Czaplejewicz

dudemanguy

Dudemanguy911

Duncaen

Dylan Araps

earnest ma

Ed Younis

EdOverflow

EIREXE

Ejez

Ekaterina Vaartis

Eli Schwartz

Elias Naur

Eloi Rivard

elumbella

Elyes HAOUAS

Elyesa

emersion

Emerson Ferreira

Emmanuel Gil Peyrot

Enerccio

Erazem Kokot

Eric Bower

Eric Drechsel

Eric Engestrom

Eric Molitor

Erik Reider

ernierasta

espkk

Ethan Lee

Euan Torano

EuAndreh

Evan Allrich

Evan Hanson

Evan Johnston

Evan Relf

Eyal Sawady

Ezra

Fabian Geiselhart

Fabio Alessandro Locati

Falke Carlsen

Fazlul Shahriar

Felipe Cardoso Resende

Fenveireth

Ferdinand Bachmann

FICTURE7

Filip Sandborg

finley

Flakebi

Florent de Lamotte

florian.weigelt

Francesco Gazzetta

Francis Dinh

Frank Smit

Franklin “Snaipe” Mathieu

Frantisek Fladung

François Kooman

Frode Aannevik

frsfnrrg

ftilde

fwsmit

Gabriel Augendre

Gabriel Féron

gabrielpatzleiner

Galen Abell

Garrison Taylor

Gauvain ‘GovanifY’ Roussel-Tarbouriech

Gaël PORTAY

gbear605

Genki Sky

Geoff Greer

Geoffrey Casper

George Craggs

George Hilliard

ggrote

Gianluca Arbezzano

gilbus

gildarts

Giuseppe Lumia

Gokberk Yaltirakli

Graham Christensen

Greg Anders

Greg Depoire–Ferrer

Greg Farough

Greg Hewgill

Greg V

Gregory Anders

Gregory Mullen

grossws

Grégoire Delattre

Guido Cella

Guido Günther

Guillaume Brogi

Guillaume J. Charmes

György Kurucz

Gökberk Yaltıraklı

Götz Christ

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier

Half-Shot

Hans Brigman

Haowen Liu

Harish Krupo

Harry Jeffery

Heghedus Razvan

Heiko Carrasco

heitor

Henrik Riomar

Honza Pokorny

Hoolean

Hristo Venev

Hubert Hirtz

hugbubby

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

Humm

Hummer12007

Ian Fan

Ian Huang

Ian Moody

Ignas Kiela

Igor Sviatniy

Ihor Kalnytskyi

Ilia Bozhinov

Ilia Mirkin

Ilja Kocken

Ilya Lukyanov

Ilya Trukhanov

inwit

io mintz

Isaac Freund

Issam E. Maghni

Issam Maghni

István Donkó

Ivan Chebykin

Ivan Fedotov

Ivan Habunek

Ivan Mironov

Ivan Molodetskikh

Ivan Tham

Ivoah

ixru

j-n-f

Jaanus Torp

Jack Byrne

jack gleeson

Jacob Young

jajo-11

Jake Bauer

Jakub Kopański

Jakub Kądziołka

Jamelly Ferreira

James D. Marble

James Edwards-Jones

James Mills

James Murphy

James Pond

James Rowe

James Turner

Jan Beich

Jan Chren

Jan Palus

Jan Pokorný

Jan Staněk

JanUlrich

Jared Baldridge

Jarkko Oranen

Jasen Borisov

Jason Francis

Jason Miller

Jason Nader

Jason Phan

Jason Swank

jasperro

Jayce Fayne

jdiez17

Jeff Kaufman

Jeff Martin

Jeff Peeler

Jeffas

Jelle Besseling

Jente Hidskes

Jeremy Hofer

Jerzi Kaminsky

JerziKaminsky

Jesin

jhalmen

Jiri Vlasak

jman

Joe Jenne

johalun

Johan Bjäreholt

Johannes Lundberg

Johannes Schramm

John Axel Eriksson

John Chadwick

John Chen

John Mako

john muhl

Jon Higgs

Jonas Große Sundrup

Jonas Hohmann

Jonas Kalderstam

Jonas Karlsson

Jonas Mueller

Jonas Platte

Jonathan Bartlett

Jonathan Buch

Jonathan Halmen

Jonathan Schleußer

JonnyMako

Joona Romppanen

Joram Schrijver

Jorge Maldonado Ventura

Jose Diez

Josef Gajdusek

Josh Holland

Josh Junon

Josh Shone

Joshua Ashton

Josip Janzic

José Expósito

José Mota

JR Boyens

Juan Picca

Julian P Samaroo

Julian Samaroo

Julien Moutinho

Julien Olivain

Julien Savard

Julio Galvan

Julius Michaelis

Justin Kelly

Justin Mayhew

Justin Nesselrotte

Justus Rossmeier

Jøhannes Lippmann

k1nkreet

Kacper Kołodziej

Kaleb Elwert

kaltinril

Kalyan Sriram

Karl Rieländer

Karmanyaah Malhotra

Karol Kosek

Kenny Levinsen

kevin

Kevin Hamacher

Kevin Kuehler

Kevin Sangeelee

Kiril Vladimiroff

Kirill Chibisov

Kirill Primak

Kiëd Llaentenn

KoffeinFlummi

Koni Marti

Konrad Beckmann

Konstantin Kharlamov

Konstantin Pospelov

Konstantinos Feretos

kst

Kurt Kartaltepe

Kurt Kremitzki

kushal

Kévin Le Gouguec

Lane Surface

Langston Barrett

Lars Hagström

Laurent Bonnans

Lauri

lbonn

Leon Henrik Plickat

Leszek Cimała

Liam Cottam

Linus Heckemann

Lio Novelli

ljedrz

Louis Taylor

Lubomir Rintel

Luca Weiss

Lucas F. Souza

Lucas M. Dutra

Ludovic Chabant

Ludvig Michaelsson

Lukas Lihotzki

Lukas Märdian

Lukas Wedeking

Lukas Werling

Luke Drummond

Luminarys

Luna Nieves

Lyle Hanson

Lyndsy Simon

Lyudmil Angelov

M Stoeckl

M. David Bennett

Mack Straight

madblobfish

manio143

Manuel Argüelles

Manuel Mendez

Manuel Stoeckl

Marc Grondin

Marcel Hellwig

Marcin Cieślak

Marco Sirabella

Marian Dziubiak

Marien Zwart

Marius Orcsik

Mariusz Bialonczyk

Mark Dain

Mark Stosberg

Markus Ongyerth

MarkusVolk

Marten Ringwelski

Martijn Braam

Martin Dørum

Martin Hafskjold Thoresen

Martin Kalchev

Martin Michlmayr

Martin Vahlensieck

Matias Lang

Matrefeytontias

matrefeytontias

Matt Coffin

Matt Critchlow

Matt Keeter

Matt Singletary

Matt Snider

Matthew Jorgensen

Matthias Beyer

Matthias Totschnig

Mattias Eriksson

Matías Lang

Max Bruckner

Max Leiter

Maxime “pep” Buquet

mbays

MC42

meak

Mehdi Sadeghi

Mendel E

Merlin Büge

Miccah Castorina

Michael Anckaert

Michael Aquilina

Michael Forney

Michael Struwe

Michael Vetter

Michael Weiser

Michael Weiss

Michaël Defferrard

Michał Winiarski

Michel Ganguin

Michele Finotto

Michele Sorcinelli

Mihai Coman

Mikkel Oscar Lyderik

Mikkel Oscar Lyderik Larsen

Milkey Mouse

minus

Mitchell Kutchuk

mliszcz

mntmn

mnussbaum

Moelf

morganamilo

Moritz Buhl

Mrmaxmeier

mteyssier

Mukundan314

muradm

murray

Mustafa Abdul-Kader

mwenzkowski

myfreeweb

Mykola Orliuk

Mykyta Holubakha

n3rdopolis

Naglis Jonaitis

Nate Dobbins

Nate Guerin

Nate Ijams

Nate Symer

Nathan Rossi

Nedzad Hrnjica

NeKit

nerdopolis

ngenisis

Nguyễn Gia Phong

Niccolò Scatena

Nicholas Bering

Nick Diego Yamane

Nick Paladino

Nick White

Nicklas Warming Jacobsen

Nicolai Dagestad

Nicolas Braud-Santoni

Nicolas Cornu

Nicolas Reed

Nicolas Schodet

Nicolas Werner

NightFeather

Nihil Pointer

Niklas Schulze

Nils ANDRÉ-CHANG

Nils Schulte

Nixon Enraght-Moony

Noah Altunian

Noah Kleiner

Noah Loomans

Noah Pederson

Noam Preil

Noelle Leigh

NokiDev

Nolan Prescott

Nomeji

Novalinium

novenary

np511

nrechn

NSDex

Nuew

nyorain

nytpu

Nícolas F. R. A. Prado

oharaandrew314

Oleg Kuznetsov

Olie Ayre

Oliver Leaver-Smith

oliver-giersch

Olivier Fourdan

Ondřej Fiala

Orestis Floros

Oscar Cowdery Lack

ossi.ahosalmi

Owen Johnson

Cara Salter

Paco Esteban

Parasrah

Pascal Pascher

Patrick Sauter

Patrick Steinhardt

Paul Fenwick

Paul Ouellette

Paul Riou

Paul Spooren

Paul W. Rankin

Paul Wise

Pedro Côrte-Real

Pedro L. Ramos

Pedro Lucas Porcellis

Peroalane

Peter Grayson

Peter Lamby

Peter Rice

Peter Sanchez

Phil Rukin

Philip K

Philip Woelfel

Philipe Goulet

Philipp Ludwig

Philipp Riegger

Philippe Pepiot

Philz69

Pi-Yueh Chuang

Pierre-Albéric TROUPLIN

Piper McCorkle

pixelherodev

PlusMinus0

PoroCYon

ppascher

Pranjal Kole

ProgAndy

progandy

Przemyslaw Pawelczyk

psykose

punkkeks

pyxel

Quantum

Quentin Carbonneaux

Quentin Glidic

Quentin Rameau

R Chowdhury

r-c-f

Rabit

Rachel K

Rafael Castillo

rage 311

Ragnar Groot Koerkamp

Ragnis Armus

Rahiel Kasim

Raman Varabets

Ranieri Althoff

Ray Ganardi

Raymond E. Pasco

René Wagner

Reto Brunner

Rex Hackbro

Ricardo Wurmus

Richard Bradfield

Rick Cogley

rinpatch

Robert Günzler

Robert Johnstone

Robert Kubosz

Robert Sacks

Robert Vollmert

Robin Jarry

Robin Kanters

Robin Krahl

Robin Opletal

Robinhuett

robotanarchy

Rodrigo Lourenço

Rohan Kumar

Roman Gilg

ROMB

Ronan Pigott

ronys

Roosembert Palacios

roshal

Roshless

Ross L

Ross Schulman

Rostislav Pehlivanov

rothair

RoughB Tier0

Rouven Czerwinski

rpigott

Rune Morling

russ morris

Ryan Chan

Ryan Dwyer

Ryan Farley

Ryan Gonzalez

Ryan Walklin

Rys Sommefeldt

Réouven Assouly

S. Christoffer Eliesen

s0r00t

salkin-mada

Sam Newbold

Sam Whited

SatowTakeshi

Sauyon Lee

Scoopta

Scott Anderson

Scott Colby

Scott Leggett

Scott Moreau

Scott O’Malley

Scott Stevenson

sdilts

Sebastian

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak

Sebastian LaVine

Sebastian Noack

Sebastian Parborg

Seferan

Sergeeeek

Sergei Dolgov

Sergi Granell

sergio

Seth Barberee

Seán C McCord

sghctoma

Shaw Vrana

Sheena Artrip

Silvan Jegen

Simon Barth

Simon Branch

Simon Ruderich

Simon Ser

Simon Zeni

Siva Mahadevan

skip-yell

skuzzymiglet

Skyler Riske

Slowpython

Sol Fisher Romanoff

Solomon Victorino

somdoron

Sorcus

sourque

Spencer Michaels

SpizzyCoder

sqwishy

Srivathsan Murali

Stacy Harper

Steef Hegeman

Stefan Rakel

Stefan Schick

Stefan Tatschner

Stefan VanBuren

Stefan Wagner

Stefano Ragni

Stephan Hilb

Stephane Chauveau

Stephen Brennan

Stephen Brown II

Stephen Gregoratto

Stephen Paul Weber

Steve Jahl

Steve Losh

Steven Guikal

Stian Furu Øverbye

Streetwalrus Einstein

Stuart Dilts

Sudipto Mallick

Sumner Evans

Syed Amer Gilani

sykhro

Tadeo Kondrak

Taiyu

taiyu

taminaru

Tamir Zahavi-Brunner

Tancredi Orlando

Tanguy Fardet

Tarmack

Taryn Hill

tastytea

tcb

Teddy Reed

Tero Koskinen

Tharre

Thayne McCombs

The Depressed Milkman

TheAvidDev

TheMachine02

Theodor Thornhill

thermitegod

Thiago Mendes

thirtythreeforty

Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen

Thomas Hebb

Thomas Jespersen

Thomas Karpiniec

Thomas Merkel

Thomas Plaçais

Thomas Schneider

Thomas Weißschuh

Thomas Wouters

Thorben Günther

thuck

Till Hofmann

Tim Sampson

Tim Schumacher

Timidger

Timmy Douglas

Timothée Floure

Ting-Wei Lan

tiosgz

toadicus

Tobi Fuhrimann

Tobias Blass

Tobias Langendorf

Tobias Stoeckmann

Tobias Wölfel

Tom Bereknyei

Tom Lebreux

Tom Ryder

Tom Warnke

tomKPZ

Tommy Nguyen

Tomáš Čech

Tony Crisci

Torstein Husebø

Trannie Carter

Trevor Slocum

TriggerAu

Tudor Brindus

Tudor Roman

Tuomas Siipola

tuomas56

Twan Wolthof

Tyler Anderson

Uli Schlachter

Umar Getagazov

unlimitedbacon

unraised

User Name

v44r

Valentin

Valentin Hăloiu

Vasilij Schneidermann

Versus Void

vexhack

Vijfhoek

vil

vilhalmer

Vincent Gu

Vincent Vanlaer

Vinko Kašljević

Vitalij

Vitalij Mikhailov

Vlad Pănăzan

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

Vyivel

w1ke

Wagner Riffel

wagner riffel

Wai Hon Law

wb9688

wdbw

Whemoon Jang

Wieland Hoffmann

Wiktor Kwapisiewicz

wil

Will Daly

Will Hunt

willakat

Willem Sonke

William Casarin

William Culhane

William Durand

William Moorehouse

William Wold

willrandship

Willy Goiffon

Wolf480pl

Wouter van Kesteren

Xaiier

xdavidwu

xPMo

y0ast

Yacine Hmito

yankejustin

Yasar

Yash Srivastav

Yong Joseph Bakos

Yorick van Pelt

yuiiio

yuilib

Yury Krivopalov

Yuya Nishihara

Yábir Benchakhtir

Yábir García

Zach DeCook

Zach Sisco

Zachary King

Zandr Martin

zccrs

Zetok Zalbavar

Zie

Zoltan Kalmar

Zuzana Svetlikova

Éloi Rivard

Érico Rolim

Štěpán Němec

наб

حبيب الامين

Each of these is a distinct person, with their own lives and aspirations, who took time out of those lives to help build some cool software. I owe everything to these wonderful, talented, dedicated people. Thank you, everyone. Let’s keep up the good work, together.

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“It takes a village” was published on March 14, 2022.

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