#15437, #15439: merge Doc/ACKS.txt with Misc/ACKS and modify Doc/about.rst accordingly.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 57d03d7..e7e7cfb 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -11,25 +11,33 @@
PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in UTF-8
and the list is in rough alphabetical order by last names.
+Aahz
+Michael Abbott
David Abrahams
Jim Ahlstrom
Farhan Ahmad
Nir Aides
Yaniv Aknin
Jyrki Alakuijala
+Steve Alexander
+Fred Allen
Billy G. Allie
Kevin Altis
Joe Amenta
+A. Amoroso
Mark Anacker
Anders Andersen
John Anderson
+Pehr Anderson
Erik Andersén
Oliver Andrich
Ross Andrus
+Heidi Annexstad
Éric Araujo
Jason Asbahr
David Ascher
Chris AtLee
+Jesús Cea Avión
John Aycock
Jan-Hein Bührman
Donovan Baarda
@@ -41,8 +49,10 @@
Greg Ball
Luigi Ballabio
Jeff Balogh
+Manuel Balsera
Matt Bandy
Michael J. Barber
+Daniel Barclay
Chris Barker
Anton Barkovsky
Nick Barnes
@@ -51,6 +61,7 @@
Cesar Eduardo Barros
Des Barry
Ulf Bartelt
+Don Bashford
Nick Bastin
Jeff Bauer
Mike Bayer
@@ -69,6 +80,7 @@
Alexander “Саша” Belopolsky
Andrew Bennetts
Andy Bensky
+Bennett Benson
Michel Van den Bergh
Eric Beser
Steven Bethard
@@ -80,6 +92,7 @@
Philippe Biondi
Stuart Bishop
Roy Bixler
+Jonathan Black
Mike Bland
Martin Bless
Pablo Bleyer
@@ -88,6 +101,7 @@
Finn Bock
Paul Boddie
Matthew Boedicker
+Robin Boerdijk
David Bolen
Gawain Bolton
Gregory Bond
@@ -96,13 +110,16 @@
Eric Bouck
Thierry Bousch
Sebastian Boving
+Michal Bozon
Jeff Bradberry
+Aaron Brancotti
Monty Brandenberg
Georg Brandl
Christopher Brannon
Terrence Brannon
Dave Brennan
Tom Bridgman
+Keith Briggs
Richard Brodie
Michael Broghton
Daniel Brotsky
@@ -111,6 +128,7 @@
Oleg Broytmann
Dave Brueck
Francisco Martín Brugué
+Ian Bruntlett
Stan Bubrouski
Erik de Bueger
Dick Bulterman
@@ -134,6 +152,7 @@
Donn Cave
Charles Cazabon
Per Cederqvist
+Carl Cerecke
Octavian Cerna
Pascal Chambon
John Chandler
@@ -151,8 +170,10 @@
Anders Chrigström
Tom Christiansen
Vadim Chugunov
+Mauro Cicognini
David Cinege
Craig Citro
+Gilles Civario
Mike Clarkson
Andrew Clegg
Brad Clements
@@ -180,6 +201,7 @@
Matthew Dixon Cowles
Ryan Coyner
Christopher A. Craig
+Jeremy Craven
Laura Creighton
Simon Cross
Drew Csillag
@@ -202,6 +224,7 @@
Arnaud Delobelle
Erik Demaine
John Dennis
+L. Peter Deutsch
Roger Dev
Philippe Devalkeneer
Raghuram Devarakonda
@@ -215,6 +238,7 @@
Daniel Dittmar
Jaromir Dolecek
Ismail Donmez
+Robert Donohue
Marcos Donolo
Dima Dorfman
Cesar Douady
@@ -263,10 +287,12 @@
Mark Favas
Niels Ferguson
Sebastian Fernandez
+Carl Feynman
Vincent Fiack
Tomer Filiba
Jeffrey Finkelstein
Russell Finn
+Dan Finnie
Nils Fischbeck
Frederik Fix
Matt Fleming
@@ -276,6 +302,7 @@
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Doug Fort
John Fouhy
+Stefan Franke
Martin Franklin
Robin Friedrich
Bradley Froehle
@@ -293,6 +320,7 @@
Lele Gaifax
Santiago Gala
Yitzchak Gale
+Matthew Gallagher
Quentin Gallet-Gilles
Raymund Galvin
Nitin Ganatra
@@ -308,6 +336,7 @@
Gabriel Genellina
Christos Georgiou
Ben Gertzfield
+Nadim Ghaznavi
Dinu Gherman
Jonathan Giddy
Johannes Gijsbers
@@ -315,14 +344,18 @@
Christoph Gohlke
Tim Golden
Chris Gonnerman
+Shelley Gooch
David Goodger
Hans de Graaff
+Nathaniel Gray
Eddy De Greef
+Grant Griffin
Duncan Grisby
Fabian Groffen
John S. Gruber
Dag Gruneau
Filip Gruszczyński
+Thomas Guettler
Michael Guravage
Lars Gustäbel
Thomas Güttler
@@ -335,7 +368,9 @@
Bob Halley
Jesse Hallio
Jun Hamano
+Anders Hammarquist
Mark Hammond
+Harald Hanche-Olsen
Manus Hand
Milton L. Hankins
Stephen Hansen
@@ -343,9 +378,13 @@
Lynda Hardman
Derek Harland
Jason Harper
+Travis B. Hartwell
Larry Hastings
+Tim Hatch
Shane Hathaway
+Janko Hauser
Rycharde Hawkes
+Ben Hayden
Jochen Hayek
Christian Heimes
Thomas Heller
@@ -371,10 +410,13 @@
Joerg-Cyril Hoehle
Gregor Hoffleit
Chris Hoffman
+Stefan Hoffmeister
Albert Hofkamp
Tomas Hoger
Jonathan Hogg
+Steve Holden
Akintayo Holder
+Thomas Holenstein
Gerrit Holl
Shane Holloway
Rune Holm
@@ -389,6 +431,7 @@
Jan Hosang
Ken Howard
Brad Howes
+Mike Hoy
Chih-Hao Huang
Lawrence Hudson
Michael Hudson
@@ -407,6 +450,7 @@
Tony Ingraldi
John Interrante
Bob Ippolito
+Roger Irwin
Atsuo Ishimoto
Paul Jackson
Ben Jackson
@@ -419,12 +463,15 @@
Thomas Jarosch
Drew Jenkins
Flemming Kjær Jensen
+Philip H. Jensen
Philip Jenvey
Chris Jerdonek
Jiba
+Pedro Diaz Jimenez
Orjan Johansen
Fredrik Johansson
Gregory K. Johnson
+Kent Johnson
Simon Johnston
Nicolas Joly
Evan Jones
@@ -450,17 +497,20 @@
Ryan Kelly
Robert Kern
Randall Kern
+Jim Kerr
Magnus Kessler
Lawrence Kesteloot
Rafe Kettler
Vivek Khera
-Akira Kitada
Mads Kiilerich
+Jan Kim
Taek Joo Kim
W. Trevor King
Paul Kippes
Steve Kirsch
Sebastian Kirsche
+Kamil Kisiel
+Akira Kitada
Ron Klatchko
Bastian Kleineidam
Bob Kline
@@ -474,7 +524,10 @@
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
Marko Kohtala
+Guido Kollerie
+Peter A. Koren
Joseph Koshy
+Daniel Kozan
Jerzy Kozera
Maksim Kozyarchuk
Stefan Krah
@@ -488,10 +541,13 @@
Ivan Krstić
Andrew Kuchling
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
+Dave Kuhlman
Vladimir Kushnir
+Erno Kuusela
Kirill Kuzminykh (Кирилл Кузьминых)
Ross Lagerwall
Cameron Laird
+Thomas Lamb
Torsten Landschoff
Łukasz Langa
Tino Lange
@@ -508,6 +564,7 @@
Thomas Lee
Christopher Lee
Luc Lefebvre
+Glyph Lefkowitz
Vincent Legoll
Kip Lehman
Joerg Lehmann
@@ -515,7 +572,7 @@
Petri Lehtinen
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
-Marc-Andre Lemburg
+Marc-André Lemburg
John Lenton
Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas
Mark Levinson
@@ -526,10 +583,13 @@
Shawn Ligocki
Martin Ligr
Christopher Lindblad
+Ulf A. Lindgren
Björn Lindqvist
Per Lindqvist
Eric Lindvall
Gregor Lingl
+Everett Lipman
+Mirko Liss
Nick Lockwood
Stephanie Lockwood
Anne Lord
@@ -545,6 +605,8 @@
Jim Lynch
Mikael Lyngvig
Martin von Löwis
+Jeff MacDonald
+John Machin
Andrew I MacIntyre
Tim MacKenzie
Nick Maclaren
@@ -553,17 +615,22 @@
David Malcolm
Ken Manheimer
Vladimir Marangozov
+Vincent Marchetti
David Marek
Doug Marien
Sven Marnach
Alex Martelli
Anthony Martin
+Westley Martínez
Sébastien Martini
Roger Masse
Nick Mathewson
+Laura Matson
Graham Matthews
Dieter Maurer
+Daniel May
Arnaud Mazin
+Rebecca McCreary
Kirk McDonald
Chris McDonough
Greg McFarlane
@@ -578,6 +645,7 @@
Bill van Melle
Lucas Prado Melo
Ezio Melotti
+Doug Mennella
Brian Merrell
Luke Mewburn
Carl Meyer
@@ -587,6 +655,7 @@
Tom Middleton
Stan Mihai
Aristotelis Mikropoulos
+Paolo Milani
Damien Miller
Chad Miller
Jason V. Miller
@@ -600,6 +669,7 @@
The Dragon De Monsyne
Skip Montanaro
Paul Moore
+Ross Moore
Derek Morr
James A Morrison
Alessandro Moura
@@ -611,6 +681,7 @@
Neil Muller
R. David Murray
Piotr Meyer
+Dale Nagata
John Nagle
Takahiro Nakayama
Travers Naran
@@ -639,11 +710,14 @@
Nigel O'Brian
Kevin O'Connor
Tim O'Malley
+Zooko O'Whielacronx
Pascal Oberndoerfer
Jeffrey Ollie
Adam Olsen
Grant Olson
+Koray Oner
Piet van Oostrum
+Tomas Oppelstrup
Jason Orendorff
Douglas Orr
Michele Orrù
@@ -652,6 +726,8 @@
Michael Otteneder
R. M. Oudkerk
Russel Owen
+Joonas Paalasmaa
+Shriphani Palakodety
Ondrej Palkovsky
Mike Pall
Todd R. Palmer
@@ -661,11 +737,13 @@
Peter Parente
Alexandre Parenteau
Dan Parisien
+William Park
Harri Pasanen
Randy Pausch
Samuele Pedroni
Marcel van der Peijl
Steven Pemberton
+Bo Peng
Santiago Peresón
Mark Perrego
Trevor Perrin
@@ -674,6 +752,7 @@
Benjamin Peterson
Chris Petrilli
Bjorn Pettersen
+Justin D. Pettit
Geoff Philbrick
Gavrie Philipson
Adrian Phillips
@@ -705,12 +784,12 @@
Brodie Rao
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
-Eric Raymond
+Eric S. Raymond
Edward K. Ream
Chris Rebert
Marc Recht
John Redford
-Terry Reedy
+Terry J. Reedy
Gareth Rees
Steve Reeves
Lennart Regebro
@@ -727,6 +806,7 @@
Nicholas Riley
Jean-Claude Rimbault
Vlad Riscutia
+Wes Rishel
Juan M. Bello Rivas
Davide Rizzo
Anthony Roach
@@ -742,6 +822,7 @@
Case Roole
Timothy Roscoe
Jim Roskind
+Guido van Rossum
Just van Rossum
Hugo van Rossum
Saskia van Rossum
@@ -757,6 +838,8 @@
Sam Rushing
Mark Russell
Nick Russo
+Chris Ryland
+Constantina S.
Sébastien Sablé
Suman Saha
Hajime Saitou
@@ -766,6 +849,8 @@
Ilya Sandler
Mark Sapiro
Ty Sarna
+Hugh Sasse
+Bob Savage
Ben Sayer
sbt
Marco Scataglini
@@ -778,6 +863,7 @@
Michael Schneider
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Arvin Schnell
+Scott Schram
Chad J. Schroeder
Sam Schulenburg
Stefan Schwarzer
@@ -789,6 +875,7 @@
Žiga Seilnach
Fred Sells
Jiwon Seo
+Joakim Sernbrant
Roger Serwy
Jerry Seutter
Denis Severson
@@ -796,6 +883,8 @@
Ha Shao
Mark Shannon
Richard Shapiro
+Justin Sheehy
+Charlie Shepherd
Bruce Sherwood
Alexander Shigin
Pete Shinners
@@ -803,31 +892,40 @@
John W. Shipman
Joel Shprentz
Itamar Shtull-Trauring
+Yue Shuaijie
Eric Siegerman
Paul Sijben
Tim Silk
+Michael Simcich
+Ionel Simionescu
Kirill Simonov
Nathan Paul Simons
Janne Sinkkonen
+Ng Pheng Siong
George Sipe
J. Sipprell
Kragen Sitaker
+Michael Sloan
Eric V. Smith
Christopher Smith
Gregory P. Smith
+Roy Smith
Rafal Smotrzyk
Dirk Soede
Paul Sokolovsky
Cody Somerville
Clay Spence
Stefan Sperling
+Nicholas Spies
Per Spilling
Joshua Spoerri
Noah Spurrier
Nathan Srebro
RajGopal Srinivasan
+Tage Stabell-Kulo
Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Frank Stajano
+Anthony Starks
Oliver Steele
Greg Stein
Chris Stern
@@ -844,6 +942,7 @@
Andreas Stührk
Nathan Sullivan
Mark Summerfield
+Reuben Sumner
Hisao Suzuki
Andrew Svetlov
Kalle Svensson
@@ -871,6 +970,7 @@
Oren Tirosh
Jason Tishler
Christian Tismer
+Jim Tittsler
Frank J. Tobin
R Lindsay Todd
Bennett Todd
@@ -881,6 +981,7 @@
John Tromp
Jason Trowbridge
Anthony Tuininga
+David Turner
Stephen Turner
Theodore Turocy
Bill Tutt
@@ -890,6 +991,7 @@
Roger Upole
Michael Urman
Hector Urtubia
+Ville Vainio
Andi Vajda
Case Van Horsen
Kyle VanderBeek
@@ -907,6 +1009,7 @@
Norman Vine
Frank Visser
Johannes Vogel
+Martijn Vries
Niki W. Waibel
Wojtek Walczak
Charles Waldman
@@ -921,8 +1024,10 @@
Aaron Watters
Henrik Weber
Corran Webster
+Glyn Webster
Stefan Wehr
Zack Weinberg
+Bob Weiner
Edward Welbourne
Cliff Wells
Rickard Westman
@@ -935,6 +1040,7 @@
Gerry Wiener
Frank Wierzbicki
Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
+Timothy Wild
Jason Williams
John Williams
Sue Williams
@@ -943,6 +1049,7 @@
Frank Willison
Greg V. Wilson
J Derek Wilson
+Paul Winkler
Jody Winston
Collin Winter
Dik Winter
@@ -956,6 +1063,8 @@
Klaus-Juergen Wolf
Dan Wolfe
Richard Wolff
+Adam Woodbeck
+Steven Work
Darren Worrall
Gordon Worley
Thomas Wouters
@@ -966,6 +1075,7 @@
Ka-Ping Yee
Bob Yodlowski
Danny Yoo
+Rory Yorke
George Yoshida
Masazumi Yoshikawa
Arnaud Ysmal
@@ -976,5 +1086,6 @@
Mike Zarnstorff
Siebren van der Zee
Uwe Zessin
+Cheng Zhang
Tarek Ziadé
Peter Åstrand