Sphinx authors

Sphinx is written and maintained by Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>.

Substantial parts of the templates were written by Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@active-4.com>.

Other co-maintainers:

  • Takayuki Shimizukawa <shimizukawa@gmail.com>

  • Daniel Neuhäuser <@DasIch>

  • Jon Waltman <@jonwaltman>

  • Rob Ruana <@RobRuana>

  • Robert Lehmann <@lehmannro>

  • Roland Meister <@rolmei>

  • Takeshi Komiya <@tk0miya>

  • Jean-François Burnol <@jfbu>

  • Yoshiki Shibukawa <@shibu_jp>

  • Timotheus Kampik - <@TimKam>

Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are:

  • Alastair Houghton – Apple Help builder

  • Alexander Todorov – inheritance_diagram tests and improvements

  • Andi Albrecht – agogo theme

  • Jakob Lykke Andersen – Rewritten C++ domain

  • Henrique Bastos – SVG support for graphviz extension

  • Daniel Bültmann – todo extension

  • Marco Buttu – doctest extension (pyversion option)

  • Nathan Damon – bugfix in validation of static paths in html builders

  • Etienne Desautels – apidoc module

  • Michael Droettboom – inheritance_diagram extension

  • Charles Duffy – original graphviz extension

  • Kevin Dunn – MathJax extension

  • Josip Dzolonga – coverage builder

  • Buck Evan – dummy builder

  • Matthew Fernandez – todo extension fix

  • Hernan Grecco – search improvements

  • Horst Gutmann – internationalization support

  • Martin Hans – autodoc improvements

  • Zac Hatfield-Dodds – doctest reporting improvements, intersphinx performance

  • Doug Hellmann – graphviz improvements

  • Tim Hoffmann – theme improvements

  • Antti Kaihola – doctest extension (skipif option)

  • Dave Kuhlman – original LaTeX writer

  • Blaise Laflamme – pyramid theme

  • Chris Lamb – reproducibility fixes

  • Thomas Lamb – linkcheck builder

  • Łukasz Langa – partial support for autodoc

  • Martin Larralde – additional napoleon admonitions

  • Ian Lee – quickstart improvements

  • Robert Lehmann – gettext builder (GSOC project)

  • Dan MacKinlay – metadata fixes

  • Martin Mahner – nature theme

  • Will Maier – directory HTML builder

  • Jacob Mason – websupport library (GSOC project)

  • Glenn Matthews – python domain signature improvements

  • Kurt McKee – documentation updates

  • Roland Meister – epub builder

  • Ezio Melotti – collapsible sidebar JavaScript

  • Bruce Mitchener – Minor epub improvement

  • Daniel Neuhäuser – JavaScript domain, Python 3 support (GSOC)

  • Julien Palard – Colspan and rowspan in text builder

  • Christopher Perkins – autosummary integration

  • Benjamin Peterson – unittests

  • T. Powers – HTML output improvements

  • Jeppe Pihl – literalinclude improvements

  • Rob Ruana – napoleon extension

  • Vince Salvino – JavaScript search improvements

  • Stefan Seefeld – toctree improvements

  • Gregory Szorc – performance improvements

  • Taku Shimizu – epub3 builder

  • Antonio Valentino – qthelp builder, docstring inheritance

  • Filip Vavera – napoleon todo directive

  • Pauli Virtanen – autodoc improvements, autosummary extension

  • Eric N. Vander Weele – autodoc improvements

  • Stefan van der Walt – autosummary extension

  • Hugo van Kemenade – support FORCE_COLOR and NO_COLOR

  • Thomas Waldmann – apidoc module fixes

  • John Waltman – Texinfo builder

  • Barry Warsaw – setup command improvements

  • Sebastian Wiesner – image handling, distutils support

  • Michael Wilson – Intersphinx HTTP basic auth support

  • Matthew Woodcraft – text output improvements

  • Joel Wurtz – cellspanning support in LaTeX

  • Hong Xu – svg support in imgmath extension and various bug fixes

  • Stephen Finucane – setup command improvements and documentation

  • Daniel Pizetta – inheritance diagram improvements

  • KINEBUCHI Tomohiko – typing Sphinx as well as docutils

  • Adrián Chaves (Gallaecio) – coverage builder improvements

  • Lars Hupfeldt Nielsen - OpenSSL FIPS mode md5 bug fix

Many thanks for all contributions!

There are also a few modules or functions incorporated from other authors and projects:

  • sphinx.util.jsdump uses the basestring encoding from simplejson, written by Bob Ippolito, released under the MIT license

  • sphinx.util.stemmer was written by Vivake Gupta, placed in the Public Domain