Authors

This page isn't really meant to be an official log of changes or who's contributed (you can use Git and Desura press releases for that), just something for acknowledgement. Feel free to edit it. It also may be incomplete, because everybody's too polite to add themselves to the list.

DesuraNET

Mark "Lodle" Chandler - Created the client, worked on it for a few years, ported a good amount of CEF to Linux, ported the client to Linux and open sourced it, and manages the repo.

Tim "Protektor" Jung - Linux gaming guru, Desura developer.

Community

karolherbst - Moved the entire build system from Visual Studio, GYP and various shell scripts to CMake. Also maintains the Gentoo build script. Also got Cef to build.

Yuriy "yurikoles" Kolesnikov - Bugfixes and creating install-deps.sh.

Matthias "matthiaskrgr" Krüger - Getting install-deps.sh to work properly with arch linux, rework of the PKGBUILD.

notshi - Created the desubot mascot.

Josh "Cheeseness" Bush - Branded the Desurium client using desubot.

naryl - Created the IRC channel, created a bot specifically to link to issues at the Desurium GitHub repo under the name 'issues' on Freenode, which was then kicked by Protektor from the channel and is currently gone, wasting the name 'issues'.

Jookia - XDG Basedir support, build system fixes (old and CMake), some bugfixes and helps manage the repo.

Tomasz Makarewicz - runs an unofficial ubuntu PPA with desurium packages and maintains the DEB package creation

The Siege - desurium tester, also spoke with some distributor guys to add desurium to official repositories