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+* The original project was created inside of the huge `Chandler project`_
+  where it was mostly work of Ng Pheng Siong [#]_ .
+
+* Then for a log time it was maintain and extended to the large part by
+  Heikki Toivonen.
+  
+With 247 and 415 commits, respectively, these two first maintainers
+provided by far the biggest amount of work on the project.  Thank you.
+
+* An attempt to restart the project was made by Martin Paljak. Although
+  his effort was most mostly discarded in the end, all his suggested
+  changes were reviewed and some of them incorporated in some other
+  form. Just two commits of his remaining in the tree hugely
+  underestimate an effort he made to keep this project alive. Thank you
+  very much for your work.
+
+* Plenty of work on keeping this project alive was made by the
+  maintainer of the package inside of RHEL, Martin Trmač. He also helped
+  a lot by advice with this last effort to revive the project, and his
+  pestering me to do proper small commits rather than freaking dumps of
+  my current thoughts helped to make changes to be made a little bit
+  better (and revieweable).
+
+* This last hyena-like effort to revive a dead carcas has been started
+  by Matěj Cepl.
+
+* I got a lot of help especially with reviewing patches from Hubert
+  Kario.
+
+* Craig Rodrigues didn't loose the hope that M2Crypto could be ported to
+  be py3k-compatible, which lead to the renewed effort to do so. He also
+  helped with plenty of patches in this effort.
+
+* Casey Deccio helped a lot with fixing EC module.
+
+* Remaining contributors could be find in the output of ``git shortlog
+  -s`` command. Thank you to all.
+
+.. _`Chandler project`:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_%28software%29
+
+.. [#] His and everybody else emails can be found in the git log,
+    I won't make spammers even more happy to collect them here.