This is a list of fine folks who help bring you Nmap! But not an exclusive list, as many people who contribute greatly to Nmap are not committers. See the CHANGELOG (http://nmap.org/changelog.html) for a broader list of contributions. These people have earned commit access to the Nmap SVN repository and can check changes directly into the Nmap trunk. Significant changes/patches are generally discussed on nmap-dev first to catch problems and improve the implementation with new ideas. These people can also create /nmap-exp branches to pursue larger/experimental ideas without destabilizing the Nmap trunk in the process. Most people are added as a committer after they establish a history of writing so much code that it is easier for the existing committers to add them to the group than continue manually applying their patches :). So the best way to become one is to keep sending good patches to nmap-dev. But if you want to expedite the process, and you already have a track record of many patches integrated into Nmap, feel free to mail Fyodor. Committers added temporarily for a project (such as Summer of Code students) are not included in this list. Committers who are inactive for years will have their accounts disabled for security reasons, but they will be happily re-enabled upon request. Committers should feel free to fill in their bio/description/interests/links on this list: fyodor - Nmap author Fyodor david - Nmap co-maintainer David Fifield ron - Ron Bowes (http://www.skullsecurity.org) patrik - Patrik Karlsson (wrote tons of great NSE scripts) bmenrigh - Brandon Enright batrick - Patrick Donnelly wrote the current version of NSE. ithilgore - Ithilgore wrote the Ncrack authentication cracker (http://nmap.org/ncrack/) luis - Luis MartinGarcia wrote the Nping tool for packet generation, response analysis, and response time measurement (http://nmap.org/nping/) majek04 - Marek Majkowski doug - Doug Hoyte diman - Diman Todorov, wrote the initial version of the Nmap Scripting Engine. ejlbell - Eddie Bell jah - John A. Hickinbottom enjoys hacking with the Nmap family of tools and has contributed bug fixes, NSE scripts and various small improvements in NSE scripts and libraries. kris - Kris Katterjohn, works on random things; has implemented many features and bug fixes in Nmap (including scripts, libraries and various functionalities in NSE) and was also the lead Ncat developer until its initial release with Nmap. Entries in the Nmap and Ncat changelogs are typically denoted by just "Kris" daniel - Daniel Roethlisberger, wrote SCTP protocol support tomsellers - Tom Sellers robert - Rob Nicholls sven - Sven Klemm