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+This is a list of fine folks who help bring you Nmap! But not an
+exclusive list, as many people who contribute greatly to Nmap are not
+committers.  See the CHANGELOG (https://nmap.org/changelog.html) for a
+broader list of contributions.
+
+These people have earned commit access to the Nmap SVN repository and
+can check changes directly into the Nmap trunk.  Significant
+changes/patches are generally discussed on nmap-dev first to catch
+problems and improve the implementation with new ideas.  These people
+can also create /nmap-exp branches to pursue larger/experimental ideas
+without destabilizing the Nmap trunk in the process.
+
+Most people are added as a committer after they establish a history of
+writing so much code that it is easier for the existing committers to
+add them to the group than continue manually applying their patches
+:). So the best way to become one is to keep sending good patches to
+nmap-dev. But if you want to expedite the process, and you already
+have a track record of many patches integrated into Nmap, feel free to
+mail Fyodor.
+
+Committers added temporarily for a project (such as Summer of Code
+students) are not included in this list.  Committers who are inactive
+for years will have their accounts disabled for security reasons, but
+they will be happily re-enabled upon request.
+
+Committers should feel free to fill in their
+bio/description/interests/links on this list:
+
+fyodor     - Nmap author Fyodor
+
+david      - Nmap co-maintainer David Fifield
+
+ron        - Ron Bowes (http://www.skullsecurity.org)
+
+patrik     - Patrik Karlsson (wrote tons of great NSE scripts)
+
+bmenrigh   - Brandon Enright specializes in large-scale scanning and math/crypto
+
+batrick    - Patrick Donnelly is a Lua expert and specializes in NSE internals
+
+ithilgore  - Ithilgore wrote the Ncrack authentication cracker
+             (https://nmap.org/ncrack/)
+
+luis       - Luis MartinGarcia wrote and maintains the Nping tool for packet
+             generation, response analysis, and response time
+             measurement (https://nmap.org/nping/)
+
+majek04    - Marek Majkowski wrote a lot of low-level code and several
+             NSE scripts
+
+doug       - Doug Hoyte has his handiwork throughout the Nmap codebase.
+             He has worked on almost every subsystem.
+
+diman      - Diman Todorov, wrote the initial version of the Nmap
+             Scripting Engine.
+
+ejlbell    - Eddie Bell has made a large number of misc. improvements
+             including adding the --reason feature, and writing the
+             original --traceroute implementation.  He also wrote many
+             NSE scripts.
+
+jah        - John A. Hickinbottom enjoys hacking with the Nmap family
+             of tools and has contributed bug fixes, NSE scripts and
+             various small improvements in NSE scripts and libraries.
+
+kris       - Kris Katterjohn, works on random things; has implemented
+             many features and bug fixes in Nmap (including scripts,
+             libraries and various functionalities in NSE) and was
+             also the lead Ncat developer until its initial release
+             with Nmap.  Entries in the Nmap and Ncat changelogs are
+             typically denoted by just "Kris"
+
+daniel     - Daniel Roethlisberger, wrote SCTP protocol support
+
+tomsellers - Tom Sellers has done a lot of work with the Nmap
+             Scripting Engine, and also version detection.
+
+robert     - Rob Nicholls has done a ton of work, particularly his
+             dramatic improvements in the Windows installers for Nmap
+             and Winpcap.
+
+sven       - Sven Klemm has made dramatic improvements to the Nmap
+             Scripting Engine.
+
+djalal     - Djalal Harouni focuses on the Nmap Scripting Engine.  In
+             addition to writing several scripts and libraries, he
+             improved the infrastructure by adding the script
+             pre-scanning and post-scanning phases and the newtargets
+             (adding new systems to the scan queue) functionality.
+
+martin     - Martin Holst Swende has written many great NSE scripts as
+             well as improvements to the NSE infrastructure (such as
+             the --script-help feature).
+
+dmiller    - Dan Miller has made many important improvements to Nmap,
+             from bug fixes to new features.  He has improved many NSE
+             scripts and libraries and also continues to improve Nmap's
+             XML output support.
+
+henri      - Henri Doreau has contributed to many parts of Nmap, from NSE
+             scripts to bug fixes.  He also designed and implemented the
+             nsock-engines feature, which allows Nmap to use more efficient
+             platform-specific APIs for its underlying socket networking
+             requests.
+
+nnposter   - Contributed odds-and-ends code fixes