[master] b3efff3e6 Move Twurp's Peerage to the dev-guide

Tue Apr 16 07:13:06 UTC 2019

commit b3efff3e692149a33de02d7862056610ac7a43ef
Author: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 16 07:08:34 2019 +0000

    Move Twurp's Peerage to the dev-guide

diff --git a/doc/sphinx/dev-guide/index.rst b/doc/sphinx/dev-guide/index.rst
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@@ -98,3 +98,11 @@ The varnish-cache.org homepage
 
 	homepage_dogfood
 	homepage_contrib
+
+Project metadata
+----------------
+
+.. toctree::
+	:maxdepth: 1
+
+	who
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/dev-guide/who.rst b/doc/sphinx/dev-guide/who.rst
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+.. _who_is:
+
+Who is ... ?
+============
+
+Not quite `Twurp's Peerage <https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Twurp%27s_Peerage>`_ but a Who's Who of the Varnish Cache project.
+
+Anders Berg
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Blame Anders!  He is the one who got the crazy idea that the world
+needed another HTTP proxy server software, and convinced his employer,
+the norwegian newspaper `Verdens Gang <http://www.vg.no>`_ to pay for the
+first version to be developed.
+
+Here is an interview with Anders about `how it all began
+<http://info.varnish-software.com/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-varnish-cache-qa-with-the-man-behind-the-idea>`_
+
+Dag-Erling Smørgrav
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+DES was working at Redpill-Linpro, a norwegian UNIX/Open Source company
+when Anders floated his idea for a "forward HTTP cache", he lured PHK
+into joining, was one of the original developers (doing Linux), project
+manager and release engineer for the first three years of the project,
+and forced us to adopt a non-US-ASCII charset from the start.
+
+Poul-Henning Kamp
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+PHK, as he's usually known, has written most of the code and come up with
+most of the crazy ideas in Varnish, and yet he still has trouble
+remembering what 'REST', 'CORS' and 'ALPN' means, and he flunked
+'CSS for dummies' because he was never a webmaster or webdeveloper.
+He does have 30+ years of experience in systems programming, and
+that seems useful too.
+
+PHK's `random outbursts </docs/trunk/phk/index.html>`_ has their own
+section in the Varnish documentation.
+
+Per Buer
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Per also worked at Redpill-Linpro, and at some point when the
+impedance mismatch between Linpros "normal way of doing things" and
+the potential of Varnish became to steep, he convinced the company
+to spin off `Varnish Software <https://varnish-software.com/>`_
+with himself at the helm.
+
+Do a git blame on the Varnish documentation and you will be surprised
+to see how much he cares about it. Very few people notice this.
+
+Ingvar Hagelund
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Ingvar works as Team Leader (read very skilled sysadmin) at Redpill-Linpro,
+but his passion is reading books and blogging about it, as well as RPM
+packaging. So every Fedora and EPEL (read RedHat and CentOS) Varnish user
+out there owe him a thanks or two. Once in a while, he also trawls the
+internet checking for the rate of Varnish adoption among top web sites.
+
+Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Stig works at Redpill-Linpro and is the guy in charge of packaging Varnish
+for Debian, which means Ubuntu users owe him a thanks also. Besides this,
+he maintains VCL-mode for emacs and is generally a nice and helpful guy.
+
+
+Tollef Fog Heen
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Tollef was product owner and responsible for Varnish while working
+for Redpill-Linpro. later tech lead at Varnish Software and held
+the Varnish release manager helmet for a few years. His experience with
+open source (Debian, Ubuntu and many others) brought sanity to the
+project in ways that are hard to measure or describe.
+
+Kristian Lyngstøl
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Kristian was the first Varnish SuperUser, and he quite literally
+wrote the book, while giving Varnish courses for Redpill-Linpro,
+and he pushed boundaries where no boundaries had been pushed before
+which caused a lot of improvements and "aha!" moments in Varnish.
+
+Artur Bergman
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Artur ran Wikias webservers and CDN when he discovered Varnish and
+eagerly adopted it, causing many bugreports, suggestions, patches
+and improvements.  At some point, he pivoted Wikias CDN into the
+Varnish based startup-CDN named `Fastly <http://www.fastly.com/>`_
+
+Kacper Wysocki
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Kacper was probably the first VCL long program writer. Combine this with
+an interest in security and a job at Redpill-Linpro and he turned
+quickly into the author of security.vcl and, later, the Varnish Security
+Firewall. He does not have any commits in Varnish and still has managed
+to drive quite a few changes into the project. Similarly, he has no idea
+or has even thought about asking for it, and still is being added here
+He maintains the VCL grammar in BNF notation, which is an unexploited
+gold mine.
+
+Nils Goroll
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+aka 'slink' is the founder of `UPLEX <http://uplex.de/>`_, a five-head
+tech / consultancy company with negative to zero marketing (applied
+for entry into the "Earth's worst company homepage" competition). He
+fell in love with Varnish when he migrated Germany's Verdens Gang
+counterpart over a weekend in March 2009 and, since then, has
+experienced countless moments of pure joy and happiness when, after
+struggling for hours, he finally understood another piece of
+beautiful, ingenious Varnish code.
+
+Nils' primary focus are his clients and their projects. He tries to
+make those improvements to Varnish which matter to them.
+
+Martin Blix Grydeland
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Martin was the first full-time member of the C-team at Varnish Software.
+He is the main responsible for the amazing revamp of the logging
+facilities and utilities in the 4.0 cycle and later the storage
+rework. Besides that he fixes lots of bugs, knows varnishtest better
+than most, writes vmods and is the Varnish Cache Plus architect.
+
+Lasse Karstensen
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Lasse is the current release manager and stable version maintainer of
+Varnish Cache. When not doing that, he maintains build infrastructure
+and runs the Varnish Software C developer team in Oslo.
+
+Geoff Simmons
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Geoff started working at UPLEX in 2010 and soon learned to love
+Varnish as much as slink does. Since then he's been contributing code
+to the project, writing up various VMODs (mostly about regular
+expressions, blobs, backends and directors), developing standalone
+applications for logging that use Martin's VSL API, and adding custom
+patches to Varnish for various customer needs. He spends most of his
+days in customer projects as "the Varnish guy" on the operations
+teams.
