Firebird 1.5 Project Teams

Dmitry Yemanov

Russian Federation

Release coordinator; DSQL and PSQL enhancements; implementor of Embedded Server, numerous metadata enhancements, database aliasing, multi-action triggers, BigInt data type, new context variables, Windows Classic server; numerous bug-fixes

Nickolay Samofatov

Russian Federation

SQL feature designer/implementor (Savepoints, pessimistic locking); metadata enhancements; major engine re-implementations; bug-finder and fixer; architectural troubleshooter; enabled Services API on Linux Classic; performance enhancements; Linux Classic builds

Arno Brinkman

The Netherlands

Optimizer enhancements; many new DSQL features

Claudio Valderrama

Chile

Code scrutineer; bug-finder and fixer; PSQL enhancements; UDF fixer, designer and implementor

Alex Peshkoff

Russian Federation

New PSQL and DSQL features; security features coordinator and author; code fixer; Linux Superserver builds

Mike Nordell

Sweden

Translated Firebird codebase to C++; performance enhancements; feature porting; bug-finder and fixer

Blas Rodriguez Somoza

Spain

Developer of new character sets; major code cleaner and tree surgeon; MinGW builds

Roman Rokytskyy

Germany

Jaybird implementor and co-coordinator

David Jencks

U.S.A.

JayBird designer and co-coordinator; designer of Firebird documentation tools

Carlos Guzman Alvarez

Spain

Developer and coordinator of .NET provider for Firebird

John Bellardo

U.S.A.

Implemented plug-in interface for character sets; coordinator, Darwin builds; initial implementor of new memory model

Erik Kunze

Germany

Bug-finder and fixer; code-cleaner; SINIX-Z builds

Dmitry Sibiryakov

Russian Federation

Code cleanup; MinGW builds

Pavel Cisar

Czech Republic

Linux builds (Release 1.0); QA tools designer/coordinator

Ann Harrison

U.S.A.

Bug-fixer; technical advisor; increased maximum indexes allowed

Mark O'Donohue

Australia

readline feature in isql; bug-fixing; boot builds (Release 1.0); code-fixing (Release 1.0)

Paul Reeves

France

QA; Win32 installers; standard Win32 control panel applet

Ignacio J. Ortega

Spain

Added PLAN feature to triggers; code cleanup

Konstantin Kuznetsov

Russian Federation

Solaris Intel builds

Olivier Mascia

Belgium

Re-implementor of Win32 installation services

Peter Jacobi

Germany

Improvements, updating of character sets

Tilo Muetze

Germany

Firebird documentation project coordinator

Paul Vinkenoog

The Netherlands

Coordinator, Firebird documentation project; UDF fixes

Artur Anjos

Portugal

Enhanced Win32 control panel applets; Firebird Configuration Manager developer; internationalization of same

Achim Kalwa

Germany

Enhanced Win32 control panel applets

Sean Leyne

Canada

Bugtracker organizer; code cleaner

Ryan Baldwin

U.K.

Jaybird Type 2 driver developer

Sandor Szollosi

Hungary

Implementor of character set collations

Dmitry Kuzmenko

Russian Federation

Bugfixed GSTAT

Artem Petkevych

Ukraine

Bug-fixed ARRAY type

Vlad Horsun

Ukraine

Speed-boosted sweep; fixed 2-phase commit bug

Tomas Skoda

Slovakia

Bug-fixer

Evgeny Kilin

Russian Federation

Bug-fixer

Oleg Loa

Russian Federation

Bug-fixer

Erik S. La Bianca

U.S.A.

Bug-fixer

Tony Caduto

U.S.A.

Unofficial Win32 installers

Juan Guerrero

Spain

New UDFs

Chris Knight

Australia

FreeBSD builds

Neil McCalden

U.K.

Solaris builds

Grzegorz Prokopsi

Hungary

Debian builds

Paul Beach

U.K.

HP-UX builds

Geoffrey Speicher

U.S.A.

FreeBSD builds

Helen Borrie

Australia

Release notes author; field-tester and Thought Police