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Leslie Patrick Polzer   <polzer@gnu.org>
        * parts of 1.6.24 PedUnit API
        * GPT pth_* functions and block size fixes
        * PED_SECTOR_SIZE -> PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT
        * debugging framework
        * ext2 "strange layout" fix (experimental)
        * support for physical block sizes
        * SCO BFS support

        http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/

        Snail Mail:
        Am Kirchberg 15
        89537 Giengen
        Germany

Andrew Clausen          <clausen@gnu.org>
        * all FAT code (libparted/fs_fat)
        * all linux-swap code (libparted/fs_linux_swap)
        * some reiserfs glue code (libparted/fs_reiserfs) with Umanets
        * most of the API (with lots of discussion with Lennert Buytenhek)
          (include/parted/*)
        * generic filesystem code (filesys.c) and device code (device.c)
        * exception code (exception.c, debug.c)
        * partition table code (disk.c)
        * dos partition support (disk_dos.c)
        * mac partition support (disk_mac.c)
        * mips partition support (disk_mips.c)
        * loopback support (disk_loop.c)
        * some of the PC98 code (disk_pc98.c), with Masahiro Sakai.
        * misc. hacking on all disk_*.c code
        * low-level I/O code (device.c, geom.c, linux.c)
          - init_scsi() stolen from gnome-gfdisk via Matt Wilson.
        * constraint solver (natmath.c, constraint.c)
        * command-line, and fdisk-like frontend (parted/*)
        * stubs for ntfs, hfs, xfs
        * hacked on libparted/fs_ext2 a fair bit (bug fixes, error handling,
        support for > 1024 groups, etc.)
        * libparted/mbr.s (the MBR boot loader code)
        * misc hacking on GNU/Hurd port
        * major surgery on GUID Partition Table (GPT) support (disk_gpt.[ch])
        * progress meter support (libparted/timer.c include/parted/timer.h)

        Snail mail:
        18 Shaw St
        Ashwood, 3147
        Australia

Lennert Buytenhek       <buytenh@gnu.org>
        * original ext2 code (libparted/fs_ext2)
        * discussion/ideas for API

Matthew Wilson          <msw@redhat.com>
        * basis of partition table and device code (disk.c, disk_dos.c,
        and device.c)  Has morphed into something that looks completely
        different now :-)
        * bug fixes
        * BSD disklabel support (disk_bsd.c)
        * Python bindings to libparted
        * Don't detect AIX physical volumes as msdos partition tables
        * Code for manipulating AIX PVs

Martin von Löwis        <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
        * German translations

Baty Jean-Marc          <baty@club-internet.fr>
        * French translations

Hiroshi Takekawa        <takekawa@sr3.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
        * Japanese translations

Eliphas Levy Theodoro   <eliphas@conectiva.com>
        * Brazillian Portugese translations

Dmitry S. Sivachenko    <dima@Chg.RU>
        * Russian translations

Timshel Knoll           <timshel@pobox.com>
        * man pages (parted.8 partprobe.8)
        * bug fixes

Ivo Timmermans          <itimmermans@bigfoot.com>
        * Dutch translations

Ryoji Kawagishi         <kawagisi@yk.rim.or.jp>
        * Japanese translation of doc/USER (user documentation)
        (replaced by Okuji's version, now)

Okuji Yoshinori         <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-a.ac.jp>
        * doc/USER.jp
        * contributions to Japanese translations

Masahiro Sakai          <ZVM01052@nifty.ne.jp>
        * most of the PC98 support (disk_pc98.c), with Andrew Clausen
        * lots of tedious work on parted/strlist.c

Damien Genet            <damien.genet@free.fr>
        * parted.m4

Ben Collins             <bcollins@debian.org>
        * Sun disk label support (libparted/disk_sun.c)
        * stubs for UFS

Vincent Stelhé          <vincent.stelhe@free.fr>
        * move syntax patch (make END specification optional).  Trivial
        for copyright purposes (no disclaimer needed)

Neal H Walfield         <neal@cs.uml.edu>
        * GNU/Hurd port - libparted/gnu.c

Thomas Roelz            <tom@suse.de>
        * misc bug fixes

Matt Domsch             <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
        * GUID Partition Table (GPT) support (disk_gpt.[ch],
                                              crc32.[ch])
        * misc bug fixes, including end-of-device workaround
        in libparted/linux.c

Kjetil Torgrim Homme    <kjetilho@linpro.no>
        * Norweigen translations

Jörgen Tegnér           <jorgen.tegner@telia.com>
        * Swedish translations

Keld Simonsen           <keld@dkuug.dk>
        * Danish translations

Richard M. Kreuter      <kreuter@ausar.rutgers.edu>
        * converted doc/USER to texinfo (doc/parted.texi)

Miquel Matas            <miquelmatas@wanadoo.es>
        * Catalan translations

Andreas Dilger          <adilger@clusterfs.com>
        * lots of mix bug fixes/cleanups

Vicente E. Llorens      <vllorens@mundofree.com>
        * Spanish translations

Yury Umanets            <torque@ukrpost.net>
        * basis of libparted/fs_reiserfs

Bernardo João Torres da Silveira
                        <bernardojts@ig.com.br>
        * pt_BR translation of FAQ and parted.texi

Wojciech Polak          <polak@gnu.org>
        * Polish translations

Miloslav Trmac          <mitr@volny.cz>
        * Czech translations

Maxim V. Dziumanenko    <mvd@mylinux.com.ua>
        * Ukrainian translations

Giuseppe Sacco          <eppesuig@debian.org>
        * Italian translations

Guillaume Knispel       <k_guillaume@libertysurf.fr>
        * nearly all hfs and hfs+ code (libparted/fs_hfs)
        * hfs+ support for mac partitions (disk_mac.c)
        * sync_fast code (linux.c gnu.c geom.[ch] device.[ch] )
        * various fixes (parted.c ui.c filesys.c disk_dos.c disk.c
        doc/parted.texi doc/API disk_gpt.c disk_mac.c unit.c fs_fat/traverse.c)

Chris Lumens            <clumens@redhat.com>
        * interactive help fixes for filesystem types
        * gcc-4 pedanticism cleanups

Wei-Lun Chao            <chaoweilun@pcmail.com.tw>
        * Taiwanese dialect of Chinese (Cantonese?) translations.

Tran Thi Hoang Quyen    <banhdauxanhhaiduong@gmail.com>
        * Vietnamese translations

Eduardo Maestri Righes  <eduardo@tteng.com.br>
        * hidden partitions support
        * setting MS Reserved partitions through "set" command.

Arif E. Nugroho         <arif_endro@yahoo.com>
        * Indonesian translations

Ithamar R. Adema        <ithamar@unet.nl>
        * BeOS support

David Cantrell          <dcantrell@redhat.com>
        * Added support for Promise SX8 devices (original patch from Jeremy
          Katz <katzj@redhat.com>)
        * Brought IBM/Red Hat DASD patches forward to parted-1.7.x
          Original IBM authors: Volker Sameske <sameske@de.ibm.com>
                                Horst Hummel <Horst.Hummel@de.ibm.com>
          Original Red Hat authors: Phil Knirsch <phil@redhat.de>
                                    Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.de>
        * Prevent SIGFPE when FAT sector size is 0
        * Add virtual DASD (VIODASD) on iSeries support
        * Use O_DIRECT I/O to prevent first partition corruption on GPT disks
        * Prevent sector reading exceptions from ped_geometry_check() on Mac
          disklabels.
        * Various bug fixes and other things.

Peter Jones             <pjones@redhat.com>
        * Add ped_exception_get_handler()
        * /dev/mapper read/write support on Linux (via libdevmapper)

Darren Lavender         <dl1@hppine99.gbr.hp.com>
        * Fix SIGSEGV in parted 1.6.19 and assertion error in 1.7.0
        * Add support for LUN/device resize detection and option GPT
          header corruption
        * Fixed off-by-one error in GPT header that allowed for overlap
          between LDAs of LastUsableLBA and PartitionEntryLBA in backup GPT

Olaf Hering             <olh@suse.de>
        * Fixes for Macintosh disk label code

Debarshi Ray            <rishi@gnu.org>
        * Display disk model and transport type in parted(8).
        * '--list/-l' command line switch.
        * Introduce 'print devices' and alias 'print list' to 'print all'.
        * Alias 'mktable' to 'mklabel'.
        * Code and API clean-up, bug fixes, and other miscellaneous stuff.

Harald Welte            <laforge@gnumonks.org>
        * SD/MMC Storage card support on Linux
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