<p>YaCy's core architecture with the PLASMA search engine, the http server/proxy, the KELONDRO Database and
the P2P-based index distribution was designed and implemented by <b>Michael Peter Christen</b>.
<p>At this time, many contributions have been made. Here is a list of volunteers in alphabetical order:
<p>The following persons are involved (alphabetical order):
<ul>
<li><b>Michael Christen/Orbiter</b> is project founder; designed and implemented the overall architecture, is chief software architect, release management, kelondro database, yacy core protocol, indexing technique and database structure, search and ranking functionality, http client/server architecture, admin of yacy.net</li>
<li><b>Natali Christen</b> designed the YaCy logo.</li>
<li><b>Stephan Hermens</b> has made some bugfixes.</li>
<li><b>Daburna</b> provided some german translation. He also made bittorrent-releases</li>
<li><b>Stephan Hermens</b> has made some important bugfixes.</li>
<li><b>Matthias Kempka</b> provided a linux-init start/stop - script</li>
<li><b>Timo Leise</b> suggested and implemented an extension to the blacklist feature: part-of-domain matching.</li>
<li><b>Marc Nause</b> made enhancements to the YaCyWiki, the Message- and User-Profile menues and functions.</li>
<li><b>Marc Nause</b> made many major enhancements to the YaCyWiki, the Message- and User-Profile menues and functions.</li>
<li><b>Thomas Quella</b> designed the Kaskelix mascot. He also made a large number of bug fixes.</li>
<li><b>Roland Ramthun</b> owns and administrates the <ahref="http://www.yacy-forum.de/">German YaCy-Forum</a>. He also cares for correct English spelling and a German translation of the YaCy user interface. Roland and other forum participants extended the PHPForum code to make it possible to track development feature requests and bug reports with status codes and editor flags.</li>
<li><b>Roland Ramthun</b> owns and administrates the <ahref="http://www.yacy-forum.de/">German YaCy-Forum</a>. He publishes a monthly YaCy newsletter, cares for correct English spelling and a German translation of the YaCy user interface. Roland and other forum participants extended the PHPForum code to make it usable as bug- and feature-tracking system..</li>
<li><b>Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann</b>, executive board member of the German search-engine association <ahref="http://www.suma-ev.de/">SuMa-eV</a>
and manager of the meta-search-engine <ahref="http://www.metager.de">metaGer</a> provided <ahref="http://www.suma-lab.de/yacy/">web-space for the german documentation</a> and computing resources for a <ahref="http://www.suma-lab.de:8080">demo peer</a>. He also pushed the project by arranging promotional events.</li>
<li><b>Alexander Schier</b> did much alpha-testing, gave valuable feed-back on my ideas and suggested his own. He suggested and implemented large parts of the popular blacklist feature. He supplied the 'Log'-menu function, the skin-feature, many minor changes, bug fixes and the Windows-Installer - version of YaCy. Alex also provides and maintaines the <ahref="http://www.suma-lab.de/yacy/">german documentation</a> for yacy.</li>
<li><b>Martin Thelian</b> made system-wide performance enhancement by introducing thread pools. He provided a plug-in system for external text parser and integrated many parser libraries such as pdf and word format parsers. Martin also extended and enhanced the http and proxy protocol towards a rfc-clean implementation. He also provided code for ICAP support and many more things.</li>
and manager of the meta-search-engine <ahref="http://www.metager.de">metaGer</a> provided computing resources for a <ahref="http://www.suma-lab.de:8080">demo peer</a>. He also pushed the project by arranging promotional events.</li>
<li><b>Alexander Schier</b> did much alpha-testing from beginning of project, and suggested many features; implemented the blacklist feature, bookmarks, log-menu, user-db, skin-feature, windows-installer and provided first implementation of the yacybar Firefox extension; admin of yacy-websuche.de and the media-wiki at yacy-websuche.de/wiki.</li>
<li><b>Matthias Söhnholz</b> added the offline-browsing feature</li>
<li><b>slick</b> helps as packager (.rpm, .deb etc)</li>
<li><b>Martin Thelian</b> made system-wide performance enhancement by introducing thread pools; he added ICAP and SOAP support, most of external parser integration, maintains the http protocol implementation, added squid compatibility, robots protocol, better logging and many index protocol, import/export and transfer enhancements. He created a YaCy screensaver and coded major parts of the yacybar Firefox extension.</li>
orbiter
19 years ago