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# Sphinx authors

Sphinx is written and maintained by Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>.

Substantial parts of the templates were written by Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@active-4.com>.

Other co-maintainers:

- Takayuki Shimizukawa <shimizukawa@gmail.com>
- Daniel Neuhäuser <@DasIch>
- Jon Waltman <@jonwaltman>
- Rob Ruana <@RobRuana>
- Robert Lehmann <@lehmannro>
- Roland Meister <@rolmei>

Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are:

- Alastair Houghton – Apple Help builder
- Andi Albrecht – agogo theme
- Jakob Lykke Andersen – Rewritten C++ domain
- Henrique Bastos – SVG support for graphviz extension
- Daniel Bültmann – todo extension
- Etienne Desautels – apidoc module
- Michael Droettboom – inheritance_diagram extension
- Charles Duffy – original graphviz extension
- Kevin Dunn – MathJax extension
- Josip Dzolonga – coverage builder
- Buck Evan – dummy builder
- Hernan Grecco – search improvements
- Horst Gutmann – internationalization support
- Martin Hans – autodoc improvements
- Doug Hellmann – graphviz improvements
- Timotheus Kampik - JS enhancements, stop words language fix
- Takeshi Komiya – numref feature
- Dave Kuhlman – original LaTeX writer
- Blaise Laflamme – pyramid theme
- Thomas Lamb – linkcheck builder
- Łukasz Langa – partial support for autodoc
- Ian Lee – quickstart improvements
- Robert Lehmann – gettext builder (GSOC project)
- Dan MacKinlay – metadata fixes
- Martin Mahner – nature theme
- Will Maier – directory HTML builder
- Jacob Mason – websupport library (GSOC project)
- Roland Meister – epub builder
- Ezio Melotti – collapsible sidebar JavaScript
- Daniel Neuhäuser – JavaScript domain, Python 3 support (GSOC)
- Christopher Perkins – autosummary integration
- Benjamin Peterson – unittests
- 20. Powers – HTML output improvements
- Jeppe Pihl – literalinclude improvements
- Rob Ruana – napoleon extension
- Stefan Seefeld – toctree improvements
- Shibukawa Yoshiki – pluggable search API and Japanese search
- Taku Shimizu – epub3 builder
- Antonio Valentino – qthelp builder
- Filip Vavera – napoleon todo directive
- Pauli Virtanen – autodoc improvements, autosummary extension
- Stefan van der Walt – autosummary extension
- Thomas Waldmann – apidoc module fixes
- John Waltman – Texinfo builder
- Barry Warsaw – setup command improvements
- Sebastian Wiesner – image handling, distutils support
- Michael Wilson – Intersphinx HTTP basic auth support
- Joel Wurtz – cellspanning support in LaTeX
- Hong Xu – svg support in imgmath extension and various bug fixes

Many thanks for all contributions!

There are also a few modules or functions incorporated from other authors and projects:

- sphinx.util.jsdump uses the basestring encoding from simplejson, written by Bob Ippolito, released under the MIT license
- sphinx.util.stemmer was written by Vivake Gupta, placed in the Public Domain