The Team
Who are the Kate & KWrite contributors?
Kate & KWrite and the underlying KTextEditor & KSyntaxHighlighting frameworks are created by a group of volunteers around the world. The same is true for this website.
Below is a periodically updated list of the contributors to the Git repositories containing the above named software components & website. As this list is purely based on the Git history of our repositories, it will be incomplete for otherwise submitted patches, etc.
The list is sorted by number of commits done by the individual contributors. This is by no means the best measure of the impact of their contributions, but gives some rough estimation about their level of involvement.
Don't forget the KDE Community!
Beside these explicitly named contributors to our text editor related components, a large portion of work is done by other members of the much broader KDE community.
This includes crucial work like:
- developing the foundations we use, like KDE Frameworks
- doing all internationalization and translation work for our projects
- releasing our stuff
- maintaining our infrastructure (GitLab, CI, ...)
- supporting developer sprints
If you are not interested in joining our text editor related team, please take a look if you want to contribute to KDE. The KDE community is a very welcoming bunch of people.
If you are not able to contribute, you might be interested to donate. Whereas these donations are not directly targeted at specific development, they help to keep the overall KDE community going. For example some Kate related coding sprints were funded by the KDE e.V. based on these donations.
Contributors during the last year
101 people contributed during the last year. New contributors are highlighted, thanks for joining our team!
Waqar Ahmed | Christoph Cullmann |
Pablo Rauzy | Jonathan Poelen |
Eric Armbruster | Alain Laporte |
Nicolas Fella | Friedrich W. H. Kossebau |
Kåre Särs | Ahmad Samir |
loh tar | Mark Nauwelaerts |
Alex Turbov | Laurent Montel |
Volker Krause | Eugene Popov |
Héctor Mesa Jiménez | Alexander Lohnau |
Georg Gadinger | Phu Nguyen |
Akseli Lahtinen | Bharadwaj Raju |
Heiko Becker | Milian Wolff |
Bob Eightseven | Cezar Tigaret |
Lukas Sommer | Rafał Lalik |
Thomas Friedrichsmeier | Albert Astals Cid |
Alexander Potashev | Patrick Northon |
Jake Leahy | Kai Uwe Broulik |
Vítor Luís dos Santos Trindade | Yuri Chornoivan |
Andreas Sturmlechner | Daniel Contreras |
Harald Sitter | M. Ibrahim |
Marius P | Sune Vuorela |
Alex Kh | Antonio Rojas |
Biswapriyo Nath | Demmark Forrester |
Lilith Houtjes | Marián Konček |
Andreas Gratzer | Ilia Kats |
Ilya Pominov | Luigi Toscano |
Michael Alexsander | Méven Car |
Nate Graham | Neelaksh Singh |
Pino Toscano | Tarcisio Fischer |
Thomas Surrel | Tobias Leupold |
Weng Xuetian | Willyanto Willyanto |
shenleban tongying | Alex Carney |
Alex Lowe | Alex Neundorf |
Beluga Whale | Christophe Giboudeaux |
David Edmundson | David Faure |
Dawid Wróbel | Fabian Wunsch |
Fire Fragment | Fushan Wen |
Gary Wang | Gaurav Shah |
Glebs Ivanovskis | Helga Albert-Huszár |
Ismael Asensio | Jakub Benda |
Jan Bidler | Jeremy Murphy |
John Doe | Joshua Goins |
Kevin Funk | Konrad Borowski |
Lars Pontoppidan | Magnus Groß |
Marat Nagayev | Máté Pozsgay |
Neehar Vijay | Nicholas Omann |
Nikita Karpei | Ognian Milanov |
Quinten Kock | Shalok Shalom |
Tomáš Hnyk | Vitor Trindade |
Vlad Zahorodnii | jrv ezg |
sabri unal |
Contributors during the project lifetime
During the full project lifetime 698 people contributed. Thanks for making Kate possible!
Christoph Cullmann | Dominik Haumann |
Waqar Ahmed | Kåre Särs |
Joseph Wenninger | Erlend Hamberg |
Anders Lund | Hamish Rodda |
Simon St James | Alex Turbov |
Volker Krause | Laurent Montel |
Milian Wolff | Michal Humpula |
Jonathan Poelen | Mark Nauwelaerts |
David Nolden | Bernhard Beschow |
Shaheed Haque | David Faure |
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau | Nibaldo González |
Albert Astals Cid | Pascal Létourneau |
Miquel Sabaté | Yuri Chornoivan |
Sven Brauch | loh tar |
Burkhard Lück | Pablo Rauzy |
Ahmad Samir | Sebastian Pipping |
Jan Paul Batrina | Pino Toscano |
Eric Armbruster | T.C. Hollingsworth |
Christian Ehrlicher | Dirk Mueller |
Robin Pedersen | Wilbert Berendsen |
Pablo Martín | Michel Ludwig |
Matthew Woehlke | Alex Neundorf |
John Firebaugh | Nicolas Fella |
Kevin Funk | Alexander Lohnau |
Svyatoslav Kuzmich | Adrian Lungu |
Phu Nguyen | Thomas Friedrichsmeier |
Christoph Feck | Christian Couder |
Stephan Binner | Carl Schwan |
Stephan Kulow | Mirko Stocker |
Jesse Yurkovich | Alex Merry |
Alain Laporte | Vegard Øye |
Malcolm Hunter | Alexander Neundorf |
Gregor Mi | Montel Laurent |
Heiko Becker | Rafael Fernández López |
Aleix Pol | Marco Mentasti |
Simon Huerlimann | Allen Winter |
Urs Wolfer | Georg Gadinger |
Phil Schaf | Igor Kushnir |
Jakob Petsovits | Andrew Coles |
Gerald Senarclens de Grancy | Méven Car |
Adriaan de Groot | Chusslove Illich |
Thomas Fjellstrom | Andreas Hartmetz |
Martijn Klingens | André Wöbbeking |
Ilia Kats | Alex Richardson |
Frederik Schwarzer | Jarosław Staniek |
Kai Uwe Broulik | Patrick Spendrin |
Héctor Mesa Jiménez | Nicolas Goutte |
Bram Schoenmakers | Eugene Popov |
Simon Hausmann | Tomáš Trnka |
Adrián Chaves Fernández (Gallaecio) | Aurélien Gâteau |
Krzysztof Stokop | Marcell Fülöp |
Aaron J. Seigo | Andreas Kling |
Fabian Wunsch | Arto Hytönen |
Clarence Dang | Gary Wang |
Niko Sams | Paul Giannaros |
Alexander Potashev | Andrew Paseltiner |
Brian Anderson | Ian Reinhart Geiser |
Luigi Toscano | Martin Seher |
Akseli Lahtinen | Bharadwaj Raju |
Frederik Gladhorn | Kevin Ottens |
Matt Rogers | Jan Blackquill |
Nate Graham | Thiago Macieira |
Daniel Naber | Eike Hein |
Jan Villat | Luca Beltrame |
Waldo Bastian | Andreas Cord-Landwehr |
Andreas Gratzer | Christoph Roick |
Daan De Meyer | David Edmundson |
Johannes Sixt | Jonathan Riddell |
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández | Leo Savernik |
Andreas Pakulat | Andrey Matveyakin |
Anthony Fieroni | Christophe Giboudeaux |
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић) | Diego Iastrubni |
Philipp A | Tobias Koenig |
Eduardo Robles Elvira | Harald Fernengel |
Jiri Pinkava | Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé |
Martin Walch | Matthias Kretz |
Tomaz Canabrava | Trevor Blight |
Wang Kai | Weng Xuetian |
Bob Eightseven | Cezar Tigaret |
David Bryant | Ellis Whitehead |
Giovana Vitor Dionisio Santana | Harsh Kumar |
Jack Hill | Jaime Torres |
Lasse Liehu | Lukas Sommer |
Maks Orlovich | Oswald Buddenhagen |
Andras Mantia | Christian Loose |
David Palser | Dmitry Risenberg |
Frank Osterfeld | John Layt |
John Tapsell | Oliver Kellogg |
Primoz Anzur | Rafał Lalik |
Ralf Habacker | René J.V. Bertin |
flying sheep | Abhishek Patil |
Adam Jimerson | Andreas Sturmlechner |
Anne-Marie Mahfouf | Antonio Rojas |
Bastian Holst | Ben Cooksley |
David Jarvie | David Redondo |
David Schulz | Filip Gawin |
George Staikos | Hannah von Reth |
Harald Sitter | Jeroen Wijnhout |
John Salatas | Kazuki Ohta |
Matt Broadstone | Orgad Shaneh |
Peter Oberndorfer | Ryan Cumming |
Yury G. Kudryashov | Adam Treat |
Andrzej Dabrowski | Charles Samuels |
Daniel Levin | Dawit Alemayehu |
Denis Doria | Felipe Borges |
Gleb Popov | Ian Wakeling |
Jaison Lee | Jos van den Oever |
Lukáš Tinkl | Martin T. H. Sandsmark |
Massimo Callegari | Michael Jansen |
Nathaniel Graham | Nick Shaforostoff |
Nicolás Alvarez | Olivier Goffart |
Patrick Northon | R.J.V. Bertin |
Rafał Rzepecki | Robert Hoffmann |
Safa AlFulaij | Samuel Gaist |
Shubham Jangra | York Xiang |
artyom kirnev | Allan Sandfeld Jensen |
Amaury Bouchra Pilet | Andreas Holzammer |
Arno Rehn | Bernd Gehrmann |
Carlo Segato | Carsten Pfeiffer |
Charles Vejnar | David Herberth |
Denis Lisov | Harri Porten |
Harsh Chouraria J | Helio Castro |
Heng Liu | Holger Danielsson |
Ivan Čukić | Ivo Anjo |
Jake Leahy | Michael Hansen |
Mufeed Ali | Peter Kümmel |
Richard Smith | Scott Wheeler |
Stephen Kelly | Thomas Braun |
Vítor Luís dos Santos Trindade | Xaver Hugl |
andreas kainz | shenleban tongying |
Andi Fischer | Andrius Štikonas |
Benjamin Meyer | Daniel Contreras |
Darío Andrés Rodríguez | Dominique Devriese |
Emeric Dupont | Evgeniy Ivanov |
Fabian Kosmale | Flavio Castelli |
Grzegorz Szymaszek | Guo Yunhe |
Helio Chissini de Castro | Luboš Luňák |
M. Ibrahim | Marius P |
Michael Pyne | Nadeem Hasan |
Nikita Sirgienko | Rolf Eike Beer |
Stefan Asserhäll | Sune Vuorela |
Thomas Schoeps | Thomas Surrel |
Toshitaka Fujioka | Aaron Puchert |
Alex Crichton | Alex Kh |
Bernhard Loos | Biswapriyo Nath |
Boris Egorov | Brian Ward |
Daniele Scasciafratte | Dave Corrie |
David Leimbach | Davide Bettio |
Demmark Forrester | Dāvis Mosāns |
Ernesto Castellotti | Francis Laniel |
Helge Deller | Holger Schröder |
Ibrahim Abdullah | Ignacio Castaño Aguado |
Ilya Konstantinov | Jacob Rideout |
Laurence Withers | Lilith Houtjes |
Marco Rebhan | Marcus Camen |
Marián Konček | Markus Meik Slopianka |
Martin Kostolný | Michael Goffioul |
Mickael Marchand | Mike Harris |
Raymond Wooninck | Rex Dieter |
Reza Arbab | Richard Dale |
Richard J. Moore | Robert Knight |
Sergio Martins | Simon Persson |
Thiago Sueto | Vladimir Prus |
Wes H | Willy De la Court |
Wolfgang Bauer | Ömer Fadıl USTA |
Ömer Fadıl Usta | Ada Sauce |
Alexander Dymo | Alexander Zhigalin |
Andrew Crouthamel | Antonio Larrosa Jimenez |
Arek Koz (Arusekk) | Arend van Beelen jr |
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer | Bhushan Shah |
Caleb Tennis | Casper Boemann |
Chris Howells | Christophe Dervieux |
Christopher Yeleighton | Cornelius Schumacher |
Craig Drummond | Cristian Oneț |
Cédric Borgese | Daniel Aleksandersen |
Daniel Tang | Dmitry Suzdalev |
Elvis Angelaccio | Enrique Matías Sánchez |
Fabian Vogt | Frans Englich |
Frerich Raabe | Gene Thomas |
George Florea Bănuș | Gioele Barabucci |
Gregory S. Hayes | Heinz Wiesinger |
Hoàng Đức Hiếu | Hugo Pereira Da Costa |
Huon Wilson | Ilya Pominov |
Ismael Asensio | Ivan Shapovalov |
Jaime Torres Amate | Jakub Benda |
Jekyll Wu | Jens Dagerbo |
Julien Antille | Jure Repinc |
Kurt Pfeifle | Leonardo Finetti |
Marcello Massaro | Mario Aichinger |
Markus Brenneis | Markus Pister |
Markus Slopianka | Maximilian Löffler |
Michael Alexsander | Michael Palimaka |
Michel Hermier | Mickael Bosch |
Miklos Marton | Neelaksh Singh |
Nikolas Zimmermann | Petter Stokke |
Phil Young | Pierre-Marie Pédrot |
Raphael Kubo da Costa | Rob Buis |
Roberto Raggi | Scott Lawrence |
Sebastian Kügler | Sebastian Sauer |
Sergey Kalinichev | Shalok Shalom |
Shaun Reich | Silas Lenz |
Sven Leiber | Tarcisio Fischer |
Thomas Braxton | Thomas Häber |
Thomas Leitner | Thorsten Roeder |
Tim Beaulen | Tim Hutt |
Tobias C. Berner | Tobias Leupold |
Valentin Rouet | Vincent Belliard |
Vincenzo Buttazzo | Volker Augustin |
Will Entriken | William Wold |
Willyanto Willyanto | Zack Rusin |
Алексей Шилин | Aaron Seigo |
Abdullah | Alberto Salvia Novella |
Aleix Pol Gonzalez | Alex Carney |
Alex Hermann | Alex Lowe |
Alexander Schlarb | Alexander Volkov |
Alexey Bogdanenko | Aline Lermen |
Amit Kumar Jaiswal | Ana Beatriz Guerrero López |
Anakim Border | Anders Ponga |
Andre Heinecke | Andrea Canciani |
Andrea Scarpino | Andreas Abel |
Andreas Hohenegger | Andreas Simon |
Andrew Chen | Andrey Karepin |
Andrey S. Cherepanov | Andrius da Costa Ribas |
André Marcelo Alvarenga | Andy Goossens |
Antoni Bella Pérez | Arctic Ice Studio |
Arnaud Ruiz | Arnold Dumas |
Arnold Krille | Ashish Bansal |
Axel Kittenberger | Ayushmaan jangid |
Azat Khuzhin | Bart Ribbers |
Barış Metin | Beluga Whale |
Ben Blum | Ben Harless |
Benjamin Buch | Benjamin C Meyer |
Bernd Buschinski | Björn Peemöller |
Boris Petrov | Brad Hards |
Brendan Zabarauskas | Bruno Virlet |
Casper van Donderen | Cezar M. Tigaret |
Christoph Rüßler | Christopher Blauvelt |
Claudio Bantaloukas | Conrad Hoffmann |
Corey Richardson | Cédric Pasteur |
Dan Vrátil | Daniel Laidig |
Daniel Micay | Daniel Sonck |
Davi Marinho | David Rosca |
David Smith | Dawid Wróbel |
Denis Steckelmacher | Diana-Victoria Tiriplica |
Diggory Hardy | Dirk Rathlev |
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett | Ede Rag |
Ederag | Elias Probst |
Emanuele Tamponi | Emmanuel Lepage Vallee |
Ewald Snel | Federico Zenith |
Felipe Kinoshita | Felix Yan |
Filipe Saraiva | Fire Fragment |
Francis Herne | Francisco Boni |
Francois-Xavier Duranceau | Frank Steinmetzger |
Frederik Banning | Fredrik Höglund |
Fushan Wen | Gaurav Shah |
Germain Garand | Glebs Ivanovskis |
Gregor Tätzner | Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas |
Guillermo Molteni | Gustavo Rodrigues |
Hartmut Goebel | Helga Albert-Huszár |
HeroesGrave | Ian Monroe |
Ignat Semenov | Ivan Koveshnikov |
Jan Bidler | Jan Grulich |
Jan Przybylak | Janet Blackquill |
Javier Guerra | Jeremy Murphy |
Jeremy Whiting | Jesse Crossen |
Jiří Wolker | Jochen Wilhelmy |
Joerg Schiermeier | John Doe |
John Schroeder | Johnny Jazeix |
Jonathan L. Verner | Jonathan Lopez |
Jonathan Marten | Jonathan Raphael Joachim Kolberg |
Jonathan Singer | Jonathan Verner |
Joshua Goins | José Joaquín Atria |
Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado | Juliano F. Ravasi |
Juraj Oravec | Karol Szwed |
Karthik Nishanth | Kevin Ballard |
Kishore Gopalakrishnan | Konrad Borowski |
Ksofix Alert | Kurt Granroth |
Kurt Hindenburg | Kyle S Horne |
Lars Pontoppidan | Laurent Cimon |
Lauri Watts | Lays Rodrigues |
Leandro Emanuel López | Leandro Santiago |
Li-yao Xia | Liu Zhe |
Luis Taira | Maciej Mrozowski |
Magnus Groß | Magnus Hoff |
Malte Starostik | Manuel Tortosa |
Marat Nagayev | Marc Espie |
Marco Martin | Marijn Kruisselbrink |
Markus Ebner | Martin Gräßlin |
Martin Klapetek | Martin Sandsmark |
Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark | Marvin Ahlgrimm |
Matheus C. França | Matt Carberry |
Matthias Gerstner | Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel |
Matthias Klumpp | Melchior Franz |
Michael Brade | Michael Drueing |
Michael Heidelbach | Michael Matz |
Michael Ritzert | Michal Srb |
Mikhail Zolotukhin | Mikko Perttunen |
Miquel Sabaté Solà | Momo Cao |
Máté Pozsgay | Médéric Boquien |
Nazar Kalinowski | Neehar Vijay |
Nguyen Hung Phu | Nicholas Omann |
Nico Kruber | Nicola Gigante |
Nicolas Lécureuil | Nikita Karpei |
Nikolay Kultashev | Ognian Milanov |
Oleksandr Senkovych | Oliver Sander |
Olivier CHURLAUD | Olivier Felt |
Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN | Pani Ram |
Paolo Borelli | Parker Coates |
Pat Brown | Patrick José Pereira |
Paul Brown | Paul Gideon Dann |
Paulo Barreto | Paulo Moura Guedes |
Pavel Pertsev | Pedro Gimeno |
Per Winkvist | Peter J. Mello |
Peter Mello | Peter Penz |
Philip K. Gisslow | Philippe Fremy |
Phu Hung Nguyen | Quinten Kock |
Rafał Miłecki | Ralf Jung |
Ralf Nolden | Ramon Zarazua |
Randy Kron | Raphael Rosch |
Richard Mader | Robert Gruber |
Robert-André Mauchin | Rohan Garg |
Rolf Magnus | Roman Gilg |
Roman Hujer | Ruediger Gad |
Sam Greenwood | Samu Voutilainen |
Sandro Giessl | Sascha Cunz |
Sean Gillespie | Shane Wright |
Simone Scalabrino | Stefan Gehn |
Steve Mokris | Sven Greb |
Sven Lüppken | Thomas Capricelli |
Thomas Horstmeyer | Thomas Jarosch |
Thomas McGuire | Thomas Reitelbach |
Till Schfer | Tim Jansen |
Tobias Kündig | Tom Albers |
Tomáš Hnyk | Tore Melangen Havn |
Vitor Trindade | Vlad Zahorodnii |
Vladimír Vondruš | Wagner M Cunha |
Wale Afolabi | Waqar Ahmed |
Werner Trobin | Wilco Greven |
Will Stephenson | Wojciech Stachurski |
Wouter Becq | Yuen Hoe Lim |
Yuhang Zhao | Yunhe Guo |
Zoe Clifford | aa bb |
bombless | est 31 |
gamazeps | hololeap hololeap |
jrv ezg | m.eik michalke |
mdinger | oldherl oh |
sabri unal | shenlebantongying |
tfry | visualfc |
Émeric Dupont | Сковорода Никита Андреевич |