Sawfish was originally written by John Harper, starting around 1999, then 8 years later he refrained from maintaining it anymore and decided to let the sawfish community to 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.
| Person | Contributions / skills |
| GSR | zzz |
| Janek Kozicki | Sawfish releases and patches management. SVN (good), mediawiki (moderate), C (poor), Lisp (none) |
| Robert Personen | Librep documentation. Lisp (good) |
| Sven Schoenung | Wiki pages and documentation (?) |
| Andrea Vettorello | Wiki |