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About Eggheads.org and Eggdev
This document was last updated July 23, 2002
Eggheads.org is the official home of Eggdrop development and the Eggdev team.
A bit of history
The domain name Eggheads.org was registered in December 1998 as a Christmas
present from Brian "SLipmat" McGowan for myself (Jeff Fisher) and #eggdrop@undernet.
In the beginning, the domain served as the home for the official web site of #eggdrop@undernet; however, in the early part of 1999 this all changed.
It was announced that Beldin's Eggdrop development group would cease development on Eggdrop after the release
of v1.3.23, and focus their work on the now defunct Eggdrop2 (this was an intended rewrite in C++).
With growing concerns from the Eggdrop community and an ever mounting pile of unofficial patches for Eggdrop v1.3.23, it was decided that a small group of
people would release their own independent version to incorporate these patches. The release was named Eggdrop v1.3.24i (where "i" stood for independent),
and it came under a lot of criticism from the old development group; however, a large majority of the community fully accepted this release as an official Eggdrop
version.
As more bugs were discovered and fixed, the need for another release was soon realized and work began on v1.3.25i; however, the community felt it was appropriate
to drop the "i" and begin releasing official _new_ versions of Eggdrop.
The rest is history ... we are currently working on the Eggdrop v1.6 series and doing development work on the v1.7 series.
The crew that makes Eggdrop go round
Many dozens of people have given time and effort to Eggdrop to make it a success. The current AUTHORS file has quite a list contained within it -- so here goes:
- Eggdrop was originally written by Robey Pointer.
Developers and Contributors (in alphabetical order):
- arthur2 aka Jerome Carre
- BarkerJr aka Bryon Eldridge
- Beldin aka Darrin Smith
- Ben aka Ben Dover
- ButchBub aka Scott Taylor
- Cybah aka Jonathan Miles
- david aka David Newhall II
- drummer aka Dobos Lorant
- Dude aka Matthew Stiefel
- dw aka Per Johansson
- Ernst aka Ernesto Baschny
- Eugene aka Michael Ortmann
- Eule aka Axel Franke
- Fabian aka Fabian Knittel
- FireEgl aka Philip Moore
- G`Quann aka Florian Sander
- guppy aka Jeff Fisher
- Ian aka Ian Campbell
- ITE aka Federico Mennite
- Jason aka Jason Ede
- Johoho aka Wiktor Wodecki
- KingKurly aka Gregory Kubaryk
- Kirben aka Travis Howell
- Kirk aka Ian Kaney
- Lucas aka Lucas Nussbaum
- nakee aka Ely Levy
- poptix aka Matthew Hallacy
- Raistlin aka Jason Slagle
- RebuM aka Martin Matuska
- rtc aka Peter 'Rattacresh' Backes
- SegFault aka Ryan Butler
- Shaun aka Shaun Braun
- simple aka Jonathan Rudolph
- slennox aka Shayne Lennox
- stdarg
- Sup aka Teemu Hjelt
- SuperS
- TaKeDa aka Dariusz Kulinski
- TheGhost aka James Simmons
- TheUnknown
- toot aka Toby Verrall
- Tothwolf
- Wcc aka Will Buckner
Thanks go to all the people who have made individual contributions to
the Eggdrop project by sending bug-reports, patches, and otherwise have
supported the project. Patch contributors are listed in the UPDATES
files.
If you think that you are missing from this list, contact the Eggheads
Development Team at eggdev@eggheads.org.
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