Sphinx is written and maintained by Georg Brandl . Substantial parts of the templates were written by Armin Ronacher . Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are: * Daniel Bültmann -- todo extension * Josip Dzolonga -- coverage builder * Horst Gutmann -- internationalization support * Martin Hans -- autodoc improvements * Dave Kuhlman -- original LaTeX writer * Thomas Lamb -- linkcheck builder * Benjamin Peterson -- unittests * Antonio Valentino -- qthelp builder * Pauli Virtanen -- autodoc improvements * Sebastian Wiesner -- image handling, distutils support Many thanks for all contributions! There are also a few modules or functions incorporated from other authors and projects: * sphinx.util.jsdump uses the basestring encoding from simplejson, written by Bob Ippolito, released under the MIT license * sphinx.util.stemmer was written by Vivake Gupta, placed in the Public Domain