original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include
Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.
-IDLE's recent development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The
+Until Python 2.3, IDLE's development was carried out in the SF IDLEfork project. The
objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution environment
which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
+IDLefork was merged into the Python code base in 2003.
The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC
Nigel Rowe, Bruce Sherwood, Jeff Shute, and Weeble have submitted useful
patches. Thanks, guys!
+Major contributors since 2005:
+
+- 2005: Tal Einat
+- 2010: Terry Jan Reedy (current maintainer)
+- 2013: Roger Serwys
+- 2014: Saimadhav Heblikar
+- 2015: Mark Roseman
+- 2017: Louie Lu, Cheryl Sabella, and Serhiy Storchaka
+
For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included