annotate AUTHORS @ 17198:d63075ed73c9

When closing IM windows on MSN, don't release the switchboard connection immediately, let it timeout peacefully. This will prevent incorrect errors about messages being unable to be sent if the user closes the window before we receive the ACK about the sent message. It will also totally mess up any client that tries to show "User has closed the conversation window" type messages, but they have *never* been accurate anyway. Fixes #241

Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
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For a complete list of all contributors, see the COPYRIGHT file.

We've got an IRC room now too, #pidgin on irc.freenode.net. Come check us out.

Current Developers:
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Sean Egan <[e-mail]> - Lead Developer
	AIM: SeanEgn
	ICQ: 96642211
	Yahoo:	SeanEgn
	MSN:  [e-mail]
	XMPP:  [e-mail]
	Gadu-Gadu:  1511497

Daniel 'datallah' Atallah - Developer
Ethan 'Paco-Paco' Blanton - Developer
Thomas Butter - Developer
Sadrul Habib Chowdhury - Developer
Mark 'KingAnt' Doliner - Developer
Christian 'ChipX86' Hammond - Developer & Webmaster
Gary 'grim' Kramlich - Developer
Richard 'rlaager' Laager - Developer
Richard 'wabz' Nelson - Developer
Christopher 'siege' O'Brien - Developer
Bartosz Oler - Developer
Etan 'deryni' Reisner - Developer
Tim 'marv' Ringenbach - Developer
Luke 'LSchiere' Schierer - Support
Megan 'Cae' Schneider (support/QA)
Evan Schoenberg - Developer
Stu 'nosnilmot' Tomlinson - Developer
Nathan 'faceprint' Walp - Developer

Crazy Patch Writers:
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John 'rekkanoryo' Bailey
Ka-Hing 'javabsp' Cheung
Felipe 'shx' Contreras
Decklin Foster
Casey Harkins
Peter 'Bleeter' Lawler
Robert 'Robot101' McQueen
Benjamin Miller
Kevin 'SimGuy' Stange

Retired Developers:
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Herman Bloggs - Win32 Port
Jim Duchek <[e-mail]> - maintainer
Rob Flynn <[e-mail]> - maintainer
Adam Fritzler - libfaim maintainer
Syd Logan - hacker and designated driver [lazy bum]
Jim Seymour - XMPP developer
Mark Spencer <[e-mail]> - original author
Eric Warmenhoven <[e-mail]> - lead developer

Artists:
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Hylke Bons - Icons

Other Contributions:
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Much thanks to Evan Martin <[e-mail]> for writing 
GtkSpell <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net> responsible for the 
"Highlight misspelled words" feature and for gtk-nativewin
<http://bunny.darktech.org/cvs/gtk-nativewin/> the default GTK+-2.0
engine used in our win32 port.

** LOGO DESIGNED BY: Naru Sundar **

Peter Teichiman <[e-mail]>
Larry Ewing 
Jeramey A. Crawford
	Thanks to these boys.  Peter and Larry managed to stomp
	out a large list of Mem Leaks.  Jeramey found the remaining
	onees and pointed me to those.  Props to the boys at 
	Helix Code.  Thanks guys.

Nathan Walp
	A healthy amount of patches for the Jabber plugin

Neil Sanchala
	Wrote most of the Zephyr plugin

Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
	Wrote the Gadu-Gadu plugin
	
David Prater    <IM: dRaven43>          [e-mail]   
	Log and Colour Button Images

Sébastien Carpe <IM: Seb Carpe>
	Base HTTP Proxy Support

Ari Pollak      <IM: Ari Pollak>	compwiz.dhs.org
	Resize conversation window patch   

Decklin Foster
	Many GUI improvements, other nifty additions and fixes

David <IM: CrazyDavy>
	The neato-bigger text box

S D Erle
	Writing a cool perl script to translate WinAIM lists to gaim

BMiller
	A good collection of stuff. %n for away messages, import winaim
	lists, pic/text/pic+text for buttons, among others

Lance Rocker
	Improved HTML formatting in logs, plus lots of debugging on *BSD.

ergofobe:
	GNOME Url handler patch

Justin M. Ward <[e-mail]>:
	Alphabetical Away Messages patch

G. Sumner Hayes <IM: SumnerFool> Security Patches

Brian Ryner for a little make file patch :)

Ryan C. Gordon - I still think you look like Silent Bob.

Elliot Tobin <[e-mail]>

Thanks to Jeroen van der Vegt for the initial smiley plugin and images.

The OpenQ Team
	Wrote the QQ plugin (see AUTHORS in the qq directory)