Sawfish was originally written by John Harper, starting around 1999, then 8 years later he refrained from maintaining it and decided to let the Sawfish community proceed with further development.
Here follows a list of people contributing their work to Sawfish.
Since it is difficult to order by measuring the amount of contribution, we will use the surname alphabetical order.
| Name | Interests | Skills |
| Christopher Bratusek | Wiki, Testing Patches, librep and rep-gtk, Maintainership | Some C and a bit Lisp, GIT, autotools & consorten |
| Rodrigo Gallardo | Packaging, help with release management, patch reviewing and testing | GIT, C, build system (make and friends) |
| Timo Korvola | Lisp parts of sawfish, patche testing, general stuff | Lisp, C |
| Janek Kozicki | Patches management, help with release management | GIT, mediawki, a little of C and no Lisp skills |
| Teika Kazura | Wiki, documentation | Lisp, C (both only a bit) |
| Guillermo S. Romero | General stuff, userdoc | Lisp, GIT |
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| Interests | ─ tells what this person wants to work on |
| Skills | ─ tells what things this person can help others |
Retired people[]
| Name | Interests | Skills |
| Robert Personen | Documentation, Modules (and modularizing sawfish) | OK C (rusty lisp) |
| Sven Schoenung | Wiki, Lisp parts of Sawfish | Lisp (little to no C) |
| Andrea Vettorello | Wiki, Lisp parts of Sawfish | Basic knowledge of C and Lisp (Common Lisp) |