The Kate team:

Christoph Cullmann <cullmann@kde.org>

Project Manager & Core Developer

Anders Lund <anders@alweb.dk>

Core Developer, Perl syntax highlighting, documentation

Joseph Wenninger <kde@jowenn.at>

Core Developer, syntax highlighting

Michael Bartl <michael.bartl1@chello.at>

Core Developer

Phlip <phlip_cpp@my-deja.com>

The project compiler

Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org>

The cool buffer system

Matt Newell <newellm@proaxis.com>

Testing...

Michael McCallum <gholam@xtra.co.nz>

Core Developer

Jochen Wilhemly <digisnap@cs.tu-berlin.de>

KWrite Author

Michael Koch <koch@kde.org>

KWrite port to KParts

Christian Gebauer <gebauer@bigfoot.com>

Unspecified

Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>

Unspecified

Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>

KWrite Undo History, KSpell integration

Scott Manson <sdmanson@alltel.net>

KWrite XML syntax highlighting support

John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh@kde.org>

Various Patches

Dominik Haumann <dhdev@gmx.de>

Developer, Highlight wizard

Many other people have contributed:

Matteo Merli <merlim@libero.it>

Highlighting for RPM Spec-Files, Diff and more

Rocky Scaletta <rocky@purdue.edu>

Highlighting for VHDL

Yury Lebedev

Highlighting for SQL

Chris Ross

Highlighting for Ferite

Nick Roux

Highlighting for ILERPG

John Firebaugh

Highlighting for Java™, and much more

Carsten Niehaus

Highlighting for LaTeX

Per Wigren

Highlighting for Makefiles, Python

Jan Fritz

Highlighting for Python

Daniel Naber

Small bugfixes, XML plugin