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.
| Person | Interests | Skills |
| GSR | ? | ? |
| Janek Kozicki | Sawfish releases and patches management | SVN, mediawki, a little of C and no lisp skills |
| Robert Personen | ? | ? |
| Sven Schoenung | Wiki, Lisp parts of Sawfish | Lisp (little to no C) |
| Andrea Vettorello | ? | ? |
| Legend | |
| Interests | ─ tells what this person wants to work on |
| Skills | ─ tells what things this person can help others |