From: bangerth Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:34:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Explain the new governance structure. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82d4d6388f577631e14ce17685a1974830860287;p=dealii-svn.git Explain the new governance structure. git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@31435 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d --- diff --git a/deal.II/doc/authors.html b/deal.II/doc/authors.html index c9f6b6ac49..32dc6bdd7a 100644 --- a/deal.II/doc/authors.html +++ b/deal.II/doc/authors.html @@ -15,13 +15,20 @@

deal.II Authors

- The deal.II project was initially started by - members of the Numerical Methods group at the Heidelberg University, - Germany but has since become a global, open source project. + deal.II is today a global project. It + administered by a group of principal + developers. Technical decisions are made by the principal + developers and a group of developers consisting of + long-term contributors with a global overview of the library. A + large number of contributors have provided substantial + patches over the years.

- The current maintainers of the library are: + These three groups are listed below.

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Principal developers

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Developers

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Contributors

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Many people have contributed to deal.II over the years, some of them very substantial parts of the library. Their work is greatly appreciated: no open source project can survice without a @@ -125,19 +167,6 @@

  • Eric Heien: HDF5 output. -
  • Luca Heltai: - Gmsh format mesh reader and writer;   - some of the meshes in the GridGenerator class;   - generalization of FilteredMatrix;   - integration of the function parser library;   - cubit journal file to export to ucd mesh format;   - FEFieldFunction and ParsedFunction classes;   - work on the codimension-one meshes, DoFHandler, and finite - elements;   - singular integration;   - Step-34 tutorial program;   - random bug fixes and enhancements. -
  • Bärbel Janssen: Lots of work on multigrid for adaptive meshes;   multigrid in the MeshWorker framework;   step-16. Various fixes. @@ -163,12 +192,6 @@
  • Oleh Krehel: Many documentation fixes. -
  • Martin Kronbichler: - step-22, step-31, step-32, step-37, step-48, interfaces to - Trilinos, significant parts of ConstraintMatrix, matrix-free - computations, support for massively parallel computations, and - many enhancements in random places. -
  • Tobias Leicht: Lots of work on internal data structures: anisotropic refinement (including step-30), faces @@ -186,10 +209,6 @@ Enhancements in the interface to PETSc. Support for reading GMSH 2.5 format. -
  • Matthias Maier: - CMake build system for the library and the testsuite. Periodic - boundary conditions. Enhancements throughout the library. -
  • Cataldo Manigrasso: Work on the codimension-one meshes, DoFHandler, and finite elements. @@ -276,10 +295,6 @@
  • Christophe Trophime: Packaging and configuration issues. -
  • Bruno Turcksin: - Extending deal.ii for 64-bit integer support. Converting the - testsuite to CMake. Various other changes. -
  • Kainan Wang: Extending deal.ii for 64-bit integer support. @@ -297,11 +312,6 @@
  • Christian Wülker: GridOut::write_svg. -
  • Toby D. Young: - Interfaces to SLEPc;   many changes in the interfaces to PETSc; -   MUMPS interface; -   METIS interface. -
  • Yuhan Zhou: Input to the curved boundary example in step-49.