GnuCash - History

Robin Clark: wrote the original X-Accountant (mirror) in Motif as a school project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997. Although every single line of his code has been re-written, his name appears as a credit in almost every file. Such is the magic of copyrights.
Linas Vepstas (photo): liked what he saw: the GUI was slick, the code was documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. And so he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an account hierarchy, split out a transaction mini-engine, added support for stocks, and spiffed up the help menus. This was version 1.0 as of January 1998. For version 1.1 & 1.2, the engine was expanded and refined, and the register window code completely redesigned and made mostly Motif-(and GUI-)independent. Linas is now active with Gnumatic Incorporated, a company formed to enhance and support GnuCash for everyone, from home desktop users to commercial and professional accountants.
Jeremy Collins: publicized the GnoMoney project widely and broadly, and then changed its name to GnuCash. (Actually, put the selection of the name up to popular vote. Democracy is not a good way to pick names.) Jeremy registered the domain name, and created and maintained the gnucash.org web site for years, and got the initial GTK/gnome code working. The newest website design is Jeremy's as well.
Rob Browning (photo): abused everyone for not using Perl, and then after we added Perl support, dumped Perl in favor of Guile/Scheme support. Rob maintined the build infrastructure for a while, added user preferences, and re-wrote the reports in scheme. One of Rob's recent contributions is the change-over of the file-format to XML. He is now concentrating on scheme performance. He is the g-wrap guile wrapper maintainer.

Rob Browning hails from Dallas and is currently a refugee from doctoral studies at UT's Computer Science department, where he specialized in robotics and computer vision. The photo shows him as a volunteer, putting up the microwave link for SRL's exploding circus.
Yannick Le Ny: Our French translator. He has translated the menus, messages, README and the documentation to French. He strung up the French translation to the GnuCash website, working hard to keep it up to date. Patches for Yahoo Europe to get stocks quotes.
Dave Peticolas (photo): hacks obsessively on GnuCash. But he can stop anytime he wants to. Really. (As he is now the gatekeeper of the GnuCash CVS tree, be nice to him, or he may decide to stop hacking in the middle of your patch).
Bill Gribble: is not shy, or softly spoken. So don't be shy if you find a bug in his code: QIF import, query API and transaction search, check-printing, commodity and currency support, gtkhtml integration and report printing, pgp support, guppi integration, and the new main window layout.
Robert Graham Merkel: Reporting, gnome, and config patches
James LewisMoss: XML Refactoring. Automated test suite.
Carol Champagne: First draft of the GnuCash User's Guide
Christian Stimming (photo): used to be the report-generating monster, when he created most of the graphical reports and added multi-currency support to the reports in general. Lately he implemented support of HBCI, the German online banking system, and widely promotes GnuCash all around Germany. Currently he is the internationalization guru, overseeing the translation of gnucash into as many languages as there are translators around.
Derek Atkins (photo) (photo): Warlord created the RPC backend for starters, and has been the lead developer of the small business features.
Joshua Sled (photo): jsled got really excited about adding budgeting support and a financial-planning workbench into GnuCash, and realized how poor his time-estimation skills were while adding Scheduled Transactions support into GnuCash 1.8.0. Currently in a high-time-commitment startup job, he hopes to return to Budgeting in a FutureRelease, he hopes that enough people will add scheduled transactions into their data files to be a good initial data-set for budgeting/analysis when it's available.
Chris Lyttle (photo): wilddev
David Hampton (photo)
Benoit Gregoire: created libOFX, thereby enabling GnuCash to understand the OFX (Open Financial Exchange) protocol and file format.

Fixers and Patchers

(In Alphabetical Order)

Andrew Arensburger <arensb@cfar.umd.edu>: for FreeBSD & other patches
Matt Armstrong <matt_armstrong@bigfoot.com>: for misc fixes
Fred Baube <fred@moremagic.com>: for attempted Java port/MoneyDance
Dennis Björklund <dennisb@cs.chalmers.se>: Swedish translation
Per Bojsen <bojsen@worldnet.att.net>: several core dump fixes
Terry Boldt <tboldt@attglobal.net>: financial calculator and expression parser
Simon Britnell <simon.britnell@peace.com>: patch to RPM spec
Christopher B. Browne <cbbrowne@hex.net>: for perl, lots of scheme and documentation
Conrad Canterford <conrad@mail.watersprite.com.au>: register bug fix
Bill Carlson <wwc@wwcnet.nu>: performance improvements
Graham Chapman <grahamc@zeta.org.au>: for the xacc-rpts addon package
George Chen <georgec@sco.com>: for MS-Money QIF's & fixes
Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>: configure.in patch
Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnome.org>: Danish translation
Robin Clark <Rob_Clark@alumni.hmc.edu>: Author of the Original X-Accountant
Jeremey Collins <jcollins@gnucash.org>: for GnoMoney & GTK port
Matthew Condell <mcondell@bbn.com>: FreeBSD patch
Patrick Condron <pcondon@rackspace.com>: for webserver and T1 connection from rackspace.com
Raphael Dechenaux <raphael.dechenaux@worldonline.fr>: register patch
Ciaran Deignan <Ciaran.Deignan@bull.net>: for AIX binary version
Glen Ditchfield <gjditchfield@acm.org>: updated documentation
Tyson Dowd <tyson@tyse.net>: for config/make patches & debian maint
Koen D'Hondt <ripley@xs4all.nl>: for Solaris patches to XmHTML
Bob Drzyzgula <bob@mostly.com>: for budgeting design notes
Paul Fenwick <pjf@schools.net.au>: ASX support, Finance::Quote
Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>: patch to gnc-prices
Valek Filippov <frob@df.ru>: Russian translation
Jan-Uwe Finck <jufi@nerdnet.de>: for German message translation
Kevin Finn <kevinfinn@mediaone.net>: auto-decimal point patch, options patch
Ron Forrester <rjf@aracnet.com>: for gnome patches
Dave Freese <DFreese@osc.uscg.mil>: for leap-year fix
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>: file i/o fix for 64-bit architectures
Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org>: xml patches
Bill Gribble <grib@billgribble.com>: qif importation code
Mitsuo Hamada <mhamada@redhat.com>: Japanese translations
Otto Hammersmith <otto@bug.redhat.com>: for RedHat RPM version
Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>: updated currency documentation
Alexandru Harsanyi <haral@codec.ro>: for core dumps, lockups, gtk work
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>: engine patch
Jon Kåre Hellan <hellan@acm.org>: misc core dump fixes
Claus Hindsgaul <claus_h@image.dk>: Danish translation
Miquel Jordana Vilamitjana <jjvmjv@mundomail.net>: Spanish translation of manual
Prakash Kailasa <PrakashK@bigfoot.com>: for gnome build fixes
Alexey Kakunin <small@arcadia.spb.ru>: quickfill patch for cyrillic
Ben Kelly <ben.kelly@ieee.org>: for motif menu bug fix, core dump fixes
Tom Kludy <tkludy@csd.sgi.com>: for SGI Irix port
Sven Kuenzler <sk@xgm.de>: for SuSE README file
Bryan Larsen <blarsen@ada-works.com>: guile budget report
Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>: for fixing a hang
Ted Lemon <mellon@andare.fugue.com>: for NetBSD port
Grant Likely <glikely@nortelnetworks.com>: gnome and engine patches
Duarte Loreto <happyguy_pt@hotmail.com>: Portuguese translations
Heath Martin <martinh@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>: gnome patches, major register work
Matt Martin <mgmartin@abacusnet.net>: guile error handling code
Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net>: reporting, gnome, and config patches
Juan Manuel García Molina <juanmagm@mail.com>: spanish translation
Christopher Molnar <molnarc@mandrakesoft.com>: build system patch
Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>: port to alpha-dec-osf4.0f
G. Allen Morris III <gam3@ann.softgams.com>: for QIF core dump
James LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>: design doc patches, xml, test suite
Steven Murdoch <sjmurdoch@linuxfan.com>: gnc-prices fix for London exchange
Brent Neal <brent@baton.phys.lsu.edu>: TIAA-CREF support.
Johnny Ernst Nielsen <j.e.nielsen@iname.com>: Danish translation
Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de>: German translation patch
Peter Norton <spacey@inch.com>: for a valiant attempt at a GTK port
OmNiBuS <webmaster@obsidian.uia.net>: web site graphics & content
Gordon Oliver <gordo@pincoya.com>: multiple currency status line patch
Myroslav Opyr <mopyr@IPM.Lviv.UA>: for misc patches
Dave Peticolas <dave@krondo.com>: extensive intelligent patches
Laurent P'elecq <laurent.pelecq@wanadoo.fr>: i18n patches with gettext
Alain Peyrat <Alain.Peyrat@nmu.alcatel.fr>: for configure.in patches
Peter Pointner <peter@wuzel.m.isar.de>: QIF import fixes, Qt patches
Gavin Porter <maufk@csv.warwick.ac.uk>: for euro style dates
Tomas Pospisek <tpo@spin.ch>: debian patches
Ron Record <rr@sco.com>: for SCO Unixware & OpenServer binaries
Keith Refson <Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk>: Solaris fixes
Dirk Schoenberger <schoenberger@signsoft.com>: Qt/KDE work
Jan Schrage <jan.schrage@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>: documentation patches
Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org>: for XbaeMatrix core dump
Alessandro Seveso <aleseveso@tiscalinet.it>: Italian translations
Mike Simons <msimons@fsimons01.erols.com>: misc configure.in patches
Keld Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>: Danish translation
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>: for Solaris cleanup
Henning Spruth <spruth@bigfoot.com>: for German text & euro date rework
Ben Stanley <bds02@uow.edu.au>: test infrastructure
Robby Stephenson <robby.stephenson@usa.net>: register & file history patches
Christian Stimming <stimming@uclink.berkeley.edu>: report patch
Bartek Szady <bszx@bszxdomain.edu.eu.org>: engine and build system patches
Herbert Thoma <tma@iis.fhg.de>: gnome register & euro support patches
Diane Trout <detrout@earthlink.net>: scheme qif import patch
Richard -Gilligan- Uschold <uschold@cs.ucf.edu>: tax report & txf export
Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>: patch to gnc-prices, qif import fixes
Rob Walker <rob@valinux.com>: guile and register patches
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>: Great Britain translations
Ken Yamaguchi <gooch@ic.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>: QIF import fixes; MYM import
Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@gol.com>: Japanese translation

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