Developer
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- See also: mw:Developers
Developers are Wikimedia contributors who work to improve and maintain the MediaWiki software that runs the Wikimedia wikis.
There is a rough hierarchy among developers. Initially, people contribute patches to Bugzilla, discuss issues on the wikitech-l mailing list or participate in discussion there or on IRC. People who are considered trustworthy and wish to contribute code on a regular basis are given access to the code in Subversion. Developers who are particularly well trusted or have a special need may be granted shell access to the server cluster. And several people who are judged to have the appropriate level of skill and trustworthiness are given root access on the servers, becoming system administrators. See also how to become a MediaWiki hacker.
Past MediaWiki software development activity level of developers may be found through CVS statistics.
The following users had CVS access on Sourceforge. Since April 2006, Subversion has been used instead. Angela Beesley (expired shell), E23 (snok) (expired shell), Tomasz Wegrzanowski (expired shell and root), Guillaume Blanchard, Axel Boldt, Rowan Collins, T.D. Corell, Lee Daniel Crocker, The Cunctator, Johan Dahlin, Peter Danenberg, Michael Dill, Andrew Dunbar, Emmanuel Engelhart, Andre Engels, Fantasy, Tom Gilder, Jan Hidders, Anders Wegge Jakobsen, Matthias Jordan, Shane King, Thomas R. Koll, Niklas Laxström, Christian List, Wil Mahan, Magnus Manske (CVS admin), Zoran Obradovic , Julian Ostrow, Nicholas Pisarro, Jr., Evan Prodromou, April King, Derek Ross, Valerio Santinelli, Chris Seaton, Alexander 'Ajvol' Sigachov, Chuck SMITH, Bogdan Stancescu, Marian Steinbach, Tarquin, Timwi (MediaZilla admin), Anders Törlind, Zhengzhu, and Rob Church.
