.. _credits:

*******
Credits
*******


matplotlib was written by John Hunter and is now developed and
maintained by a number of
`active <http://www.ohloh.net/projects/matplotlib/contributors>`_
developers.

Special thanks to those who have made valuable contributions
(roughly in order of first contribution by date)

Jeremy O'Donoghue
  wrote the wx backend

Andrew Straw
  provided much of the log scaling architecture, the fill command, PIL
  support for imshow, and provided many examples

Charles Twardy
  provided the impetus code for the legend class and has made
  countless bug reports and suggestions for improvement.

Gary Ruben
  made many enhancements to errorbar to support x and y
  errorbar plots, and added a number of new marker types to plot.


John Gill
  wrote the table class and examples, helped with support for
  auto-legend placement, and added support for legending scatter
  plots.

David Moore
  wrote the paint backend (no longer used)

Todd Miller
  supported by `STSCI <http://www.stsci.edu>`_ contributed the TkAgg
  backend and the numerix module, which allows matplotlib to work with
  either numeric or numarray.  He also ported image support to the
  postscript backend, with much pain and suffering.

Paul Barrett
  supported by `STSCI <http://www.stsci.edu>`_ overhauled font
  management to provide an improved, free-standing, platform
  independent font manager with a WC3 compliant font finder and cache
  mechanism and ported truetype and mathtext to PS.

Perry Greenfield
  supported by `STSCI <http://www.stsci.edu>`_ overhauled and
  modernized the goals and priorities page, implemented an improved
  colormap framework, and has provided many suggestions and a lot of
  insight to the overall design and organization of matplotlib.

Jared Wahlstrand
  wrote the initial SVG backend.

Steve Chaplin
  served as the GTK maintainer and wrote the Cairo and
  GTKCairo backends.

Jim Benson
  provided the patch to handle vertical mathttext.

Gregory Lielens
  provided the FltkAgg backend and several patches for the frontend,
  including contributions to toolbar2, and support for log ticking
  with alternate bases and major and minor log ticking.

Darren Dale

  did the work to do mathtext exponential labeling for log plots,
  added improved support for scalar formatting, and did the lions
  share of the `psfrag
  <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/psfrag.html?action=/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/psfrag>`_
  LaTeX support for postscript. He has made substantial contributions
  to extending and maintaining the PS and Qt backends, and wrote the
  site.cfg and matplotlib.conf build and runtime configuration
  support.  He setup the infrastructure for the sphinx documentation
  that powers the mpl docs.

Paul Mcguire
  provided the pyparsing module on which mathtext relies, and made a
  number of optimizations to the matplotlib mathtext grammar.


Fernando Perez
  has provided numerous bug reports and patches for cleaning up
  backend imports and expanding pylab functionality, and provided
  matplotlib support in the pylab mode for `ipython
  <http://ipython.scipy.org>`_.  He also provided the
  :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.matshow` command, and wrote TConfig, which
  is the basis for the experimental traited mpl configuration.

Andrew Dalke
  of `Dalke Scientific Software <http://www.dalkescientific.com/>`_ contributed the
  strftime formatting code to handle years earlier than 1900.

Jochen Voss
  served as PS backend maintainer and has contributed several
  bugfixes.

Nadia Dencheva

  supported by `STSCI <http://www.stsci.edu>`_ provided the contouring and
  contour labeling code.

Baptiste Carvello
  provided the key ideas in a patch for proper
  shared axes support that underlies ganged plots and multiscale
  plots.

Jeffrey Whitaker
  at `NOAA <http://www.boulder.noaa.gov>`_ wrote the
  :ref:`toolkit_basemap` tookit

Sigve Tjoraand, Ted Drain
  and colleagues at the `JPL <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov>`_ collaborated
  on the QtAgg backend and sponsored development of a number of
  features including custom unit types, datetime support, scale free
  ellipses, broken bar plots and more.

James Amundson
  did the initial work porting the qt backend to qt4

Eric Firing
  has contributed significantly to contouring, masked
  array, pcolor, image and quiver support, in addition to ongoing
  support and enhancements in performance, design and code quality in
  most aspects of matplotlib.

Daishi Harada
  added support for "Dashed Text".  See ` dashpointlabel.py
  <examples/pylab_examples/dashpointlabel.py>`_ and
  :class:`~matplotlib.text.TextWithDash`.

Nicolas Young
  added support for byte images to imshow, which are
  more efficient in CPU and memory, and added support for irregularly
  sampled images.

The `brainvisa <http://brainvisa.info>`_ Orsay team and Fernando Perez
  added Qt support to `ipython <http://ipython.scipy.org>`_ in pylab mode.


Charlie Moad
  contributed work to matplotlib's Cocoa support and does the binary
  builds and releases.

Jouni K. Seppaenen
  wrote the PDF backend.

Paul Kienzle
  improved the picking infrastruture for interactive plots, and with
  Alex Mont contributed fast rendering code for quadrilateral meshes.

Michael Droettboom
  supported by `STSCI <http://www.stsci.edu>`_ wrote the enhanced
  mathtext support, implementing Knuth's box layout algorithms, saving
  to file-like objects across backends, and is responsible for
  numerous bug-fixes, much better font and unicode support, and
  feature and performance enhancements across the matplotlib code
  base. He also rewrote the transformation infrastructure to support
  custom projections and scales.


