#15437, #15439: merge Doc/ACKS.txt with Misc/ACKS and modify Doc/about.rst accordingly.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index b7f3b5b..8519029 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
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
Ron Adam
Jim Ahlstrom
@@ -19,24 +21,30 @@
Nir Aides
Yaniv Aknin
Jyrki Alakuijala
+Steve Alexander
+Fred Allen
Ray Allen
Billy G. Allie
Kevin Altis
Joe Amenta
+A. Amoroso
Mark Anacker
Shashwat Anand
Anders Andersen
John Anderson
+Pehr Anderson
Erik Andersén
Oliver Andrich
Ross Andrus
Jérémy Anger
Jon Anglin
+Heidi Annexstad
Éric Araujo
Alicia Arlen
Jason Asbahr
David Ascher
Chris AtLee
+Jesús Cea Avión
John Aycock
Jan-Hein Bührman
Donovan Baarda
@@ -48,8 +56,10 @@
Greg Ball
Luigi Ballabio
Jeff Balogh
+Manuel Balsera
Matt Bandy
Michael J. Barber
+Daniel Barclay
Nicolas Bareil
Chris Barker
Anton Barkovsky
@@ -59,6 +69,7 @@
Cesar Eduardo Barros
Des Barry
Ulf Bartelt
+Don Bashford
Nick Bastin
Jeff Bauer
Mike Bayer
@@ -79,6 +90,7 @@
Eli Bendersky
Andrew Bennetts
Andy Bensky
+Bennett Benson
Michel Van den Bergh
Julian Berman
Brice Berna
@@ -93,6 +105,7 @@
Philippe Biondi
Stuart Bishop
Roy Bixler
+Jonathan Black
Mike Bland
Martin Bless
Pablo Bleyer
@@ -101,6 +114,7 @@
Finn Bock
Paul Boddie
Matthew Boedicker
+Robin Boerdijk
David Bolen
Forest Bond
Gawain Bolton
@@ -110,7 +124,9 @@
Eric Bouck
Thierry Bousch
Sebastian Boving
+Michal Bozon
Jeff Bradberry
+Aaron Brancotti
Monty Brandenberg
Georg Brandl
Christopher Brannon
@@ -118,6 +134,7 @@
Brian Brazil
Dave Brennan
Tom Bridgman
+Keith Briggs
Tobias Brink
Richard Brodie
Michael Broghton
@@ -127,6 +144,7 @@
Oleg Broytmann
Dave Brueck
Francisco Martín Brugué
+Ian Bruntlett
Floris Bruynooghe
Stan Bubrouski
Erik de Bueger
@@ -152,6 +170,7 @@
Charles Cazabon
Per Cederqvist
Matej Cepl
+Carl Cerecke
Octavian Cerna
Pascal Chambon
John Chandler
@@ -170,8 +189,10 @@
Anders Chrigström
Tom Christiansen
Vadim Chugunov
+Mauro Cicognini
David Cinege
Craig Citro
+Gilles Civario
Mike Clarkson
Andrew Clegg
Brad Clements
@@ -203,6 +224,7 @@
Matthew Dixon Cowles
Ryan Coyner
Christopher A. Craig
+Jeremy Craven
Laura Creighton
Simon Cross
Drew Csillag
@@ -226,6 +248,7 @@
Arnaud Delobelle
Erik Demaine
John Dennis
+L. Peter Deutsch
Roger Dev
Philippe Devalkeneer
Raghuram Devarakonda
@@ -241,6 +264,7 @@
Daniel Dittmar
Jaromir Dolecek
Ismail Donmez
+Robert Donohue
Marcos Donolo
Dima Dorfman
Yves Dorfsman
@@ -250,6 +274,7 @@
Derk Drukker
John DuBois
Paul Dubois
+Jacques Ducasse
Graham Dumpleton
Quinn Dunkan
Robin Dunn
@@ -297,10 +322,12 @@
Sebastian Fernandez
Florian Festi
John Feuerstein
+Carl Feynman
Vincent Fiack
Tomer Filiba
Jeffrey Finkelstein
Russell Finn
+Dan Finnie
Nils Fischbeck
Frederik Fix
Matt Fleming
@@ -310,6 +337,7 @@
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
Doug Fort
John Fouhy
+Stefan Franke
Martin Franklin
Robin Friedrich
Bradley Froehle
@@ -328,6 +356,7 @@
Lele Gaifax
Santiago Gala
Yitzchak Gale
+Matthew Gallagher
Quentin Gallet-Gilles
Riccardo Attilio Galli
Raymund Galvin
@@ -344,22 +373,28 @@
Gabriel Genellina
Christos Georgiou
Ben Gertzfield
+Nadim Ghaznavi
Dinu Gherman
Jonathan Giddy
Johannes Gijsbers
Michael Gilfix
+Matt Giuca
Christoph Gohlke
Tim Golden
Guilherme Gonçalves
Chris Gonnerman
+Shelley Gooch
David Goodger
Hans de Graaff
+Nathaniel Gray
Eddy De Greef
+Grant Griffin
Duncan Grisby
Fabian Groffen
Eric Groo
Dag Gruneau
Filip Gruszczyński
+Thomas Guettler
Michael Guravage
Lars Gustäbel
Thomas Güttler
@@ -372,7 +407,9 @@
Bob Halley
Jesse Hallio
Jun Hamano
+Anders Hammarquist
Mark Hammond
+Harald Hanche-Olsen
Manus Hand
Milton L. Hankins
Stephen Hansen
@@ -381,8 +418,11 @@
Derek Harland
Jason Harper
Brian Harring
+Travis B. Hartwell
Larry Hastings
+Tim Hatch
Shane Hathaway
+Janko Hauser
Rycharde Hawkes
Ben Hayden
Jochen Hayek
@@ -411,10 +451,13 @@
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
@@ -448,6 +491,7 @@
Tony Ingraldi
John Interrante
Bob Ippolito
+Roger Irwin
Atsuo Ishimoto
Adam Jackson
Ben Jackson
@@ -463,11 +507,14 @@
Zbyszek Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Drew Jenkins
Flemming Kjær Jensen
+Philip H. Jensen
MunSic Jeong
Chris Jerdonek
+Pedro Diaz Jimenez
Orjan Johansen
Fredrik Johansson
Gregory K. Johnson
+Kent Johnson
Simon Johnston
Matt Joiner
Thomas Jollans
@@ -497,16 +544,19 @@
Dan Kenigsberg
Robert Kern
Randall Kern
+Jim Kerr
Magnus Kessler
Lawrence Kesteloot
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
Reid Kleckner
Bastian Kleineidam
@@ -521,9 +571,12 @@
Greg Kochanski
Damon Kohler
Marko Kohtala
+Guido Kollerie
Arkady Koplyarov
+Peter A. Koren
Vlad Korolev
Joseph Koshy
+Daniel Kozan
Jerzy Kozera
Maksim Kozyarchuk
Stefan Krah
@@ -536,9 +589,12 @@
Andrej Krpic
Ivan Krstić
Andrew Kuchling
+Dave Kuhlman
Vladimir Kushnir
+Erno Kuusela
Ross Lagerwall
Cameron Laird
+Thomas Lamb
Jean-Baptiste "Jiba" Lamy
Torsten Landschoff
Łukasz Langa
@@ -559,6 +615,7 @@
Christopher Lee
Tennessee Leeuwenburg
Luc Lefebvre
+Glyph Lefkowitz
Vincent Legoll
Kip Lehman
Joerg Lehmann
@@ -566,7 +623,7 @@
Petri Lehtinen
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
-Marc-Andre Lemburg
+Marc-André Lemburg
John Lenton
Christopher Tur Lesniewski-Laas
Mark Levinson
@@ -577,12 +634,16 @@
Ross Light
Shawn Ligocki
Martin Ligr
+Gediminas Liktaras
Grant Limberg
Christopher Lindblad
+Ulf A. Lindgren
Björn Lindqvist
Per Lindqvist
Eric Lindvall
Gregor Lingl
+Everett Lipman
+Mirko Liss
Nick Lockwood
Stephanie Lockwood
Anne Lord
@@ -598,6 +659,8 @@
Jim Lynch
Mikael Lyngvig
Martin von Löwis
+Jeff MacDonald
+John Machin
Andrew I MacIntyre
Tim MacKenzie
Nick Maclaren
@@ -607,18 +670,23 @@
David Malcolm
Ken Manheimer
Vladimir Marangozov
+Vincent Marchetti
David Marek
Doug Marien
Sven Marnach
Alex Martelli
Anthony Martin
Owen 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
@@ -633,6 +701,7 @@
Bill van Melle
Lucas Prado Melo
Ezio Melotti
+Doug Mennella
Brian Merrell
Luke Mewburn
Carl Meyer
@@ -643,6 +712,7 @@
Stan Mihai
Stefan Mihaila
Aristotelis Mikropoulos
+Paolo Milani
Damien Miller
Chad Miller
Jason V. Miller
@@ -656,6 +726,7 @@
The Dragon De Monsyne
Skip Montanaro
Paul Moore
+Ross Moore
Derek Morr
James A Morrison
Alessandro Moura
@@ -668,6 +739,7 @@
Neil Muller
R. David Murray
Piotr Meyer
+Dale Nagata
John Nagle
Takahiro Nakayama
Travers Naran
@@ -698,11 +770,14 @@
John O'Connor
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
@@ -712,6 +787,8 @@
Michael Otteneder
R. M. Oudkerk
Russel Owen
+Joonas Paalasmaa
+Shriphani Palakodety
Ondrej Palkovsky
Mike Pall
Todd R. Palmer
@@ -721,7 +798,9 @@
Peter Parente
Alexandre Parenteau
Dan Parisien
+William Park
Harri Pasanen
+Bo Peng
Joe Peterson
Randy Pausch
Samuele Pedroni
@@ -736,6 +815,7 @@
Joe Peterson
Chris Petrilli
Bjorn Pettersen
+Justin D. Pettit
Geoff Philbrick
Gavrie Philipson
Adrian Phillips
@@ -772,12 +852,12 @@
Antti Rasinen
Sridhar Ratnakumar
Ysj Ray
-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
@@ -795,6 +875,7 @@
Nicholas Riley
Jean-Claude Rimbault
Vlad Riscutia
+Wes Rishel
Juan M. Bello Rivas
Davide Rizzo
Anthony Roach
@@ -811,6 +892,7 @@
Case Roole
Timothy Roscoe
Jim Roskind
+Guido van Rossum
Just van Rossum
Hugo van Rossum
Saskia van Rossum
@@ -827,6 +909,8 @@
Sam Rushing
Mark Russell
Nick Russo
+Chris Ryland
+Constantina S.
Sébastien Sablé
Suman Saha
Hajime Saitou
@@ -837,6 +921,8 @@
Ilya Sandler
Mark Sapiro
Ty Sarna
+Hugh Sasse
+Bob Savage
Ben Sayer
sbt
Marco Scataglini
@@ -852,6 +938,7 @@
Michael Schneider
Peter Schneider-Kamp
Arvin Schnell
+Scott Schram
Robin Schreiber
Chad J. Schroeder
Sam Schulenburg
@@ -865,6 +952,7 @@
Yury Selivanov
Fred Sells
Jiwon Seo
+Joakim Sernbrant
Roger Serwy
Jerry Seutter
Denis Severson
@@ -872,6 +960,8 @@
Ha Shao
Mark Shannon
Richard Shapiro
+Justin Sheehy
+Charlie Shepherd
Bruce Sherwood
Alexander Shigin
Pete Shinners
@@ -879,31 +969,41 @@
John W. Shipman
Joel Shprentz
Itamar Shtull-Trauring
+Yue Shuaijie
Eric Siegerman
Paul Sijben
+SilentGhost
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
@@ -921,6 +1021,7 @@
Pal Subbiah
Nathan Sullivan
Mark Summerfield
+Reuben Sumner
Hisao Suzuki
Kalle Svensson
Andrew Svetlov
@@ -951,6 +1052,7 @@
Oren Tirosh
Jason Tishler
Christian Tismer
+Jim Tittsler
Frank J. Tobin
R Lindsay Todd
Bennett Todd
@@ -963,6 +1065,7 @@
Jason Trowbridge
Anthony Tuininga
Erno Tukia
+David Turner
Stephen Turner
Theodore Turocy
Bill Tutt
@@ -973,6 +1076,7 @@
Daniel Urban
Michael Urman
Hector Urtubia
+Ville Vainio
Andi Vajda
Case Van Horsen
Kyle VanderBeek
@@ -993,6 +1097,7 @@
Norman Vine
Frank Visser
Johannes Vogel
+Martijn Vries
Sjoerd de Vries
Niki W. Waibel
Wojtek Walczak
@@ -1010,8 +1115,10 @@
Aaron Watters
Henrik Weber
Corran Webster
+Glyn Webster
Stefan Wehr
Zack Weinberg
+Bob Weiner
Edward Welbourne
Cliff Wells
Rickard Westman
@@ -1024,6 +1131,7 @@
Gerry Wiener
Frank Wierzbicki
Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
+Timothy Wild
Jakub Wilk
Jason Williams
John Williams
@@ -1033,6 +1141,7 @@
Frank Willison
Greg V. Wilson
J Derek Wilson
+Paul Winkler
Jody Winston
Collin Winter
Dik Winter
@@ -1047,6 +1156,8 @@
Klaus-Juergen Wolf
Dan Wolfe
Richard Wolff
+Adam Woodbeck
+Steven Work
Darren Worrall
Gordon Worley
Thomas Wouters
@@ -1059,6 +1170,7 @@
Jason Yeo
Bob Yodlowski
Danny Yoo
+Rory Yorke
George Yoshida
Masazumi Yoshikawa
Arnaud Ysmal
@@ -1070,6 +1182,7 @@
Siebren van der Zee
Yuxiao Zeng
Uwe Zessin
+Cheng Zhang
Kai Zhu
Tarek Ziadé
Peter Åstrand