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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 AhmedChristoph Cullmann
Pablo RauzyJonathan Poelen
Eric ArmbrusterAlain Laporte
Nicolas FellaFriedrich W. H. Kossebau
Kåre SärsAhmad Samir
loh tarMark Nauwelaerts
Alex TurbovLaurent Montel
Volker KrauseEugene Popov
Héctor Mesa JiménezAlexander Lohnau
Georg GadingerPhu Nguyen
Akseli LahtinenBharadwaj Raju
Heiko BeckerMilian Wolff
Bob EightsevenCezar Tigaret
Lukas SommerRafał Lalik
Thomas FriedrichsmeierAlbert Astals Cid
Alexander PotashevPatrick Northon
Jake LeahyKai Uwe Broulik
Vítor Luís dos Santos TrindadeYuri Chornoivan
Andreas SturmlechnerDaniel Contreras
Harald SitterM. Ibrahim
Marius PSune Vuorela
Alex KhAntonio Rojas
Biswapriyo NathDemmark Forrester
Lilith HoutjesMarián Konček
Andreas GratzerIlia Kats
Ilya PominovLuigi Toscano
Michael AlexsanderMéven Car
Nate GrahamNeelaksh Singh
Pino ToscanoTarcisio Fischer
Thomas SurrelTobias Leupold
Weng XuetianWillyanto Willyanto
shenleban tongyingAlex Carney
Alex LoweAlex Neundorf
Beluga WhaleChristophe Giboudeaux
David EdmundsonDavid Faure
Dawid WróbelFabian Wunsch
Fire FragmentFushan Wen
Gary WangGaurav Shah
Glebs IvanovskisHelga Albert-Huszár
Ismael AsensioJakub Benda
Jan BidlerJeremy Murphy
John DoeJoshua Goins
Kevin FunkKonrad Borowski
Lars PontoppidanMagnus Groß
Marat NagayevMáté Pozsgay
Neehar VijayNicholas Omann
Nikita KarpeiOgnian Milanov
Quinten KockShalok Shalom
Tomáš HnykVitor Trindade
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Contributors during the project lifetime

During the full project lifetime 698 people contributed. Thanks for making Kate possible!

Christoph CullmannDominik Haumann
Waqar AhmedKåre Särs
Joseph WenningerErlend Hamberg
Anders LundHamish Rodda
Simon St JamesAlex Turbov
Volker KrauseLaurent Montel
Milian WolffMichal Humpula
Jonathan PoelenMark Nauwelaerts
David NoldenBernhard Beschow
Shaheed HaqueDavid Faure
Friedrich W. H. KossebauNibaldo González
Albert Astals CidPascal Létourneau
Miquel SabatéYuri Chornoivan
Sven Brauchloh tar
Burkhard LückPablo Rauzy
Ahmad SamirSebastian Pipping
Jan Paul BatrinaPino Toscano
Eric ArmbrusterT.C. Hollingsworth
Christian EhrlicherDirk Mueller
Robin PedersenWilbert Berendsen
Pablo MartínMichel Ludwig
Matthew WoehlkeAlex Neundorf
John FirebaughNicolas Fella
Kevin FunkAlexander Lohnau
Svyatoslav KuzmichAdrian Lungu
Phu NguyenThomas Friedrichsmeier
Christoph FeckChristian Couder
Stephan BinnerCarl Schwan
Stephan KulowMirko Stocker
Jesse YurkovichAlex Merry
Alain LaporteVegard Øye
Malcolm HunterAlexander Neundorf
Gregor MiMontel Laurent
Heiko BeckerRafael Fernández López
Aleix PolMarco Mentasti
Simon HuerlimannAllen Winter
Urs WolferGeorg Gadinger
Phil SchafIgor Kushnir
Jakob PetsovitsAndrew Coles
Gerald Senarclens de GrancyMéven Car
Adriaan de GrootChusslove Illich
Thomas FjellstromAndreas Hartmetz
Martijn KlingensAndré Wöbbeking
Ilia KatsAlex Richardson
Frederik SchwarzerJarosław Staniek
Kai Uwe BroulikPatrick Spendrin
Héctor Mesa JiménezNicolas Goutte
Bram SchoenmakersEugene Popov
Simon HausmannTomáš Trnka
Adrián Chaves Fernández (Gallaecio)Aurélien Gâteau
Krzysztof StokopMarcell Fülöp
Aaron J. SeigoAndreas Kling
Fabian WunschArto Hytönen
Clarence DangGary Wang
Niko SamsPaul Giannaros
Alexander PotashevAndrew Paseltiner
Brian AndersonIan Reinhart Geiser
Luigi ToscanoMartin Seher
Akseli LahtinenBharadwaj Raju
Frederik GladhornKevin Ottens
Matt RogersJan Blackquill
Nate GrahamThiago Macieira
Daniel NaberEike Hein
Jan VillatLuca Beltrame
Waldo BastianAndreas Cord-Landwehr
Andreas GratzerChristoph Roick
Daan De MeyerDavid Edmundson
Johannes SixtJonathan Riddell
José Pablo Ezequiel FernándezLeo Savernik
Andreas PakulatAndrey Matveyakin
Anthony FieroniChristophe Giboudeaux
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)Diego Iastrubni
Philipp ATobias Koenig
Eduardo Robles ElviraHarald Fernengel
Jiri PinkavaJonathan Schmidt-Dominé
Martin WalchMatthias Kretz
Tomaz CanabravaTrevor Blight
Wang KaiWeng Xuetian
Bob EightsevenCezar Tigaret
David BryantEllis Whitehead
Giovana Vitor Dionisio SantanaHarsh Kumar
Jack HillJaime Torres
Lasse LiehuLukas Sommer
Maks OrlovichOswald Buddenhagen
Andras MantiaChristian Loose
David PalserDmitry Risenberg
Frank OsterfeldJohn Layt
John TapsellOliver Kellogg
Primoz AnzurRafał Lalik
Ralf HabackerRené J.V. Bertin
flying sheepAbhishek Patil
Adam JimersonAndreas Sturmlechner
Anne-Marie MahfoufAntonio Rojas
Bastian HolstBen Cooksley
David JarvieDavid Redondo
David SchulzFilip Gawin
George StaikosHannah von Reth
Harald SitterJeroen Wijnhout
John SalatasKazuki Ohta
Matt BroadstoneOrgad Shaneh
Peter OberndorferRyan Cumming
Yury G. KudryashovAdam Treat
Andrzej DabrowskiCharles Samuels
Daniel LevinDawit Alemayehu
Denis DoriaFelipe Borges
Gleb PopovIan Wakeling
Jaison LeeJos van den Oever
Lukáš TinklMartin T. H. Sandsmark
Massimo CallegariMichael Jansen
Nathaniel GrahamNick Shaforostoff
Nicolás AlvarezOlivier Goffart
Patrick NorthonR.J.V. Bertin
Rafał RzepeckiRobert Hoffmann
Safa AlFulaijSamuel Gaist
Shubham JangraYork Xiang
artyom kirnevAllan Sandfeld Jensen
Amaury Bouchra PiletAndreas Holzammer
Arno RehnBernd Gehrmann
Carlo SegatoCarsten Pfeiffer
Charles VejnarDavid Herberth
Denis LisovHarri Porten
Harsh Chouraria JHelio Castro
Heng LiuHolger Danielsson
Ivan ČukićIvo Anjo
Jake LeahyMichael Hansen
Mufeed AliPeter Kümmel
Richard SmithScott Wheeler
Stephen KellyThomas Braun
Vítor Luís dos Santos TrindadeXaver Hugl
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Andi FischerAndrius Štikonas
Benjamin MeyerDaniel Contreras
Darío Andrés RodríguezDominique Devriese
Emeric DupontEvgeniy Ivanov
Fabian KosmaleFlavio Castelli
Grzegorz SzymaszekGuo Yunhe
Helio Chissini de CastroLuboš Luňák
M. IbrahimMarius P
Michael PyneNadeem Hasan
Nikita SirgienkoRolf Eike Beer
Stefan AsserhällSune Vuorela
Thomas SchoepsThomas Surrel
Toshitaka FujiokaAaron Puchert
Alex CrichtonAlex Kh
Bernhard LoosBiswapriyo Nath
Boris EgorovBrian Ward
Daniele ScasciafratteDave Corrie
David LeimbachDavide Bettio
Demmark ForresterDāvis Mosāns
Ernesto CastellottiFrancis Laniel
Helge DellerHolger Schröder
Ibrahim AbdullahIgnacio Castaño Aguado
Ilya KonstantinovJacob Rideout
Laurence WithersLilith Houtjes
Marco RebhanMarcus Camen
Marián KončekMarkus Meik Slopianka
Martin KostolnýMichael Goffioul
Mickael MarchandMike Harris
Raymond WooninckRex Dieter
Reza ArbabRichard Dale
Richard J. MooreRobert Knight
Sergio MartinsSimon Persson
Thiago SuetoVladimir Prus
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Wolfgang BauerÖmer Fadıl USTA
Ömer Fadıl UstaAda Sauce
Alexander DymoAlexander Zhigalin
Andrew CrouthamelAntonio Larrosa Jimenez
Arek Koz (Arusekk)Arend van Beelen jr
Bernhard RosenkraenzerBhushan Shah
Caleb TennisCasper Boemann
Chris HowellsChristophe Dervieux
Christopher YeleightonCornelius Schumacher
Craig DrummondCristian Oneț
Cédric BorgeseDaniel Aleksandersen
Daniel TangDmitry Suzdalev
Elvis AngelaccioEnrique Matías Sánchez
Fabian VogtFrans Englich
Frerich RaabeGene Thomas
George Florea BănușGioele Barabucci
Gregory S. HayesHeinz Wiesinger
Hoàng Đức HiếuHugo Pereira Da Costa
Huon WilsonIlya Pominov
Ismael AsensioIvan Shapovalov
Jaime Torres AmateJakub Benda
Jekyll WuJens Dagerbo
Julien AntilleJure Repinc
Kurt PfeifleLeonardo Finetti
Marcello MassaroMario Aichinger
Markus BrenneisMarkus Pister
Markus SlopiankaMaximilian Löffler
Michael AlexsanderMichael Palimaka
Michel HermierMickael Bosch
Miklos MartonNeelaksh Singh
Nikolas ZimmermannPetter Stokke
Phil YoungPierre-Marie Pédrot
Raphael Kubo da CostaRob Buis
Roberto RaggiScott Lawrence
Sebastian KüglerSebastian Sauer
Sergey KalinichevShalok Shalom
Shaun ReichSilas Lenz
Sven LeiberTarcisio Fischer
Thomas BraxtonThomas Häber
Thomas LeitnerThorsten Roeder
Tim BeaulenTim Hutt
Tobias C. BernerTobias Leupold
Valentin RouetVincent Belliard
Vincenzo ButtazzoVolker Augustin
Will EntrikenWilliam Wold
Willyanto WillyantoZack Rusin
Алексей ШилинAaron Seigo
AbdullahAlberto Salvia Novella
Aleix Pol GonzalezAlex Carney
Alex HermannAlex Lowe
Alexander SchlarbAlexander Volkov
Alexey BogdanenkoAline Lermen
Amit Kumar JaiswalAna Beatriz Guerrero López
Anakim BorderAnders Ponga
Andre HeineckeAndrea Canciani
Andrea ScarpinoAndreas Abel
Andreas HoheneggerAndreas Simon
Andrew ChenAndrey Karepin
Andrey S. CherepanovAndrius da Costa Ribas
André Marcelo AlvarengaAndy Goossens
Antoni Bella PérezArctic Ice Studio
Arnaud RuizArnold Dumas
Arnold KrilleAshish Bansal
Axel KittenbergerAyushmaan jangid
Azat KhuzhinBart Ribbers
Barış MetinBeluga Whale
Ben BlumBen Harless
Benjamin BuchBenjamin C Meyer
Bernd BuschinskiBjörn Peemöller
Boris PetrovBrad Hards
Brendan ZabarauskasBruno Virlet
Casper van DonderenCezar M. Tigaret
Christoph RüßlerChristopher Blauvelt
Claudio BantaloukasConrad Hoffmann
Corey RichardsonCédric Pasteur
Dan VrátilDaniel Laidig
Daniel MicayDaniel Sonck
Davi MarinhoDavid Rosca
David SmithDawid Wróbel
Denis SteckelmacherDiana-Victoria Tiriplica
Diggory HardyDirk Rathlev
Duncan Mac-Vicar PrettEde Rag
EderagElias Probst
Emanuele TamponiEmmanuel Lepage Vallee
Ewald SnelFederico Zenith
Felipe KinoshitaFelix Yan
Filipe SaraivaFire Fragment
Francis HerneFrancisco Boni
Francois-Xavier DuranceauFrank Steinmetzger
Frederik BanningFredrik Höglund
Fushan WenGaurav Shah
Germain GarandGlebs Ivanovskis
Gregor TätznerGuillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas
Guillermo MolteniGustavo Rodrigues
Hartmut GoebelHelga Albert-Huszár
HeroesGraveIan Monroe
Ignat SemenovIvan Koveshnikov
Jan BidlerJan Grulich
Jan PrzybylakJanet Blackquill
Javier GuerraJeremy Murphy
Jeremy WhitingJesse Crossen
Jiří WolkerJochen Wilhelmy
Joerg SchiermeierJohn Doe
John SchroederJohnny Jazeix
Jonathan L. VernerJonathan Lopez
Jonathan MartenJonathan Raphael Joachim Kolberg
Jonathan SingerJonathan Verner
Joshua GoinsJosé Joaquín Atria
Juan Francisco Cantero HurtadoJuliano F. Ravasi
Juraj OravecKarol Szwed
Karthik NishanthKevin Ballard
Kishore GopalakrishnanKonrad Borowski
Ksofix AlertKurt Granroth
Kurt HindenburgKyle S Horne
Lars PontoppidanLaurent Cimon
Lauri WattsLays Rodrigues
Leandro Emanuel LópezLeandro Santiago
Li-yao XiaLiu Zhe
Luis TairaMaciej Mrozowski
Magnus GroßMagnus Hoff
Malte StarostikManuel Tortosa
Marat NagayevMarc Espie
Marco MartinMarijn Kruisselbrink
Markus EbnerMartin Gräßlin
Martin KlapetekMartin Sandsmark
Martin Tobias Holmedahl SandsmarkMarvin Ahlgrimm
Matheus C. FrançaMatt Carberry
Matthias GerstnerMatthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel
Matthias KlumppMelchior Franz
Michael BradeMichael Drueing
Michael HeidelbachMichael Matz
Michael RitzertMichal Srb
Mikhail ZolotukhinMikko Perttunen
Miquel Sabaté SolàMomo Cao
Máté PozsgayMédéric Boquien
Nazar KalinowskiNeehar Vijay
Nguyen Hung PhuNicholas Omann
Nico KruberNicola Gigante
Nicolas LécureuilNikita Karpei
Nikolay KultashevOgnian Milanov
Oleksandr SenkovychOliver Sander
Olivier CHURLAUDOlivier Felt
Ovidiu-Florin BOGDANPani Ram
Paolo BorelliParker Coates
Pat BrownPatrick José Pereira
Paul BrownPaul Gideon Dann
Paulo BarretoPaulo Moura Guedes
Pavel PertsevPedro Gimeno
Per WinkvistPeter J. Mello
Peter MelloPeter Penz
Philip K. GisslowPhilippe Fremy
Phu Hung NguyenQuinten Kock
Rafał MiłeckiRalf Jung
Ralf NoldenRamon Zarazua
Randy KronRaphael Rosch
Richard MaderRobert Gruber
Robert-André MauchinRohan Garg
Rolf MagnusRoman Gilg
Roman HujerRuediger Gad
Sam GreenwoodSamu Voutilainen
Sandro GiesslSascha Cunz
Sean GillespieShane Wright
Simone ScalabrinoStefan Gehn
Steve MokrisSven Greb
Sven LüppkenThomas Capricelli
Thomas HorstmeyerThomas Jarosch
Thomas McGuireThomas Reitelbach
Till SchferTim Jansen
Tobias KündigTom Albers
Tomáš HnykTore Melangen Havn
Vitor TrindadeVlad Zahorodnii
Vladimír VondrušWagner M Cunha
Wale AfolabiWaqar Ahmed
Werner TrobinWilco Greven
Will StephensonWojciech Stachurski
Wouter BecqYuen Hoe Lim
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