Because cinelerra-gg is merge of cin hv, cin-cv, various recent contributors on this list and Bill's own work I thought having AUTHORS file in sorce tree root will be good idea. Right now Cin-CV AUTHORS look like this (some emails outdated) hv=Adam Williams <[email protected]> j6t=Johannes Sixt <[email protected]> minmax=Andraz Tori <[email protected]> herman=Herman Robak < [email protected]> baver=Richard Baverstock <[email protected]> einar=Einar Runkaru <[email protected]> pere=Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]> tfheen=Tollef Fog Heen <[email protected]> andreask=Andreas Kielb <[email protected]> theraz=Tyler Geddes <[email protected]> dyce=Gergely Erdelyi <[email protected]> dreamlx=David Arendt <[email protected]> ga=Gustavo Iniguez <[email protected]> memenk=Michael Eric Menk <[email protected]> benjif=Benjamin Flaming <[email protected]> cobra=Kevin Brosius <[email protected]> taraba=Mark Taraba <[email protected]> nate=Nathan Kurz <[email protected]> mammique=Camille Harang <[email protected]> kbielefe=Karl Bielefeldt <[email protected]> alexf=Alex Ferrer <[email protected]> pmdumuid=Pierre Dumuid <[email protected]> giskard=Riccardo Setti <[email protected]> jstewart=Joe Stewart <[email protected]> doudou=Sylvain Joyeux <[email protected]> rafael2k=Rafael Diniz <[email protected]> nicolasm=Nicolas Maufrais <[email protected]> raffa=Raffaella Traniello <[email protected]> feranick=Nicola Ferralis <[email protected]> akirad=Paolo Rampino <[email protected]> All in all 30 authors Cin-CV did a lot of bugfixing, build system , internationalization work, some plugin work. Also IIRC ffmpeg support appeared in some branch of cv "fork" while may be Adam and Bill come up with similar file on their own? cinelerra/cinelerra-5.1/cinelerra/ffmpeg.C contain no attribution ... guess we should track this down in history and fix CinHV aboutperfs.C contain this list (Myself only send literally few oneliners, but I guess my work on cingg merges into it) credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Richard Baverstock")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Karl Bielefeldt")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Kevin Brosius")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Jean-Luc Coulon")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Jerome Cornet")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Pierre Marc Dumuid")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Nicola Ferralis")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Alex Ferrer")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Gustavo I<C3><B1>iguez")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Tefan de Konink")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Nathan Kurz")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Greg Mekkes")) credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Jean-Michel Poure")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Monty Montgomery")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Bill Morrow")); #ifdef X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Einar R<C3><BC>nkaru")); #else credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Einar R\374nkaru")); #endif credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Paolo Rampino")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Andrew Randrianasulu")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Petter Reinholdtsen")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Eric Seigne")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Johannes Sixt")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Joe Stewart")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Dan Streetman")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Mark Taraba")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Andraz Tori")); credits.append(new BC_ListBoxItem("Jonas Wulff")); 25 authors. (with overlap) Tefan de Konik looks like typo? Stefan, may be? https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/pipermail/cin/2022-January/004602.html I think for cingg specifically we should add Bill, Sergey at very least and Andrea, Phyllis, Terje, IgorB, and other *testers* because without your work we newer had chance to move anywhere near our current state. (i guess we should say list is incomplete in first edition, because fishing out all contributor's names out of mail list archive will take time) I think we can go with second form of list, without emails? Usually email is useful if someone want to ask few questions, but because someone contribute to various cinelerra branches does not mean they are still on it ... So I guess leaving remark about incompleteness and links to current email archive is best we can do?