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+.. _changes:
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+History
+*******
+
+.. towncrier-draft-entries:: DRAFT, unreleased as on |today|
+
+.. include:: ../CHANGES (links).rst
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+Credits
+*******
+
+* The original design for the ``.egg`` format and the ``pkg_resources`` API was
+  co-created by Phillip Eby and Bob Ippolito. Bob also implemented the first
+  version of ``pkg_resources``, and supplied the macOS operating system version
+  compatibility algorithm.
+
+* Ian Bicking implemented many early "creature comfort" features of
+  easy_install, including support for downloading via Sourceforge and
+  Subversion repositories. Ian's comments on the Web-SIG about WSGI
+  application deployment also inspired the concept of "entry points" in eggs,
+  and he has given talks at PyCon and elsewhere to inform and educate the
+  community about eggs and setuptools.
+
+* Jim Fulton contributed time and effort to build automated tests of various
+  aspects of ``easy_install``, and supplied the doctests for the command-line
+  ``.exe`` wrappers on Windows.
+
+* Phillip J. Eby is the seminal author of setuptools, and
+  first proposed the idea of an importable binary distribution format for
+  Python application plug-ins.
+
+* Significant parts of the implementation of setuptools were funded by the Open
+  Source Applications Foundation, to provide a plug-in infrastructure for the
+  Chandler PIM application. In addition, many OSAF staffers (such as Mike
+  "Code Bear" Taylor) contributed their time and stress as guinea pigs for the
+  use of eggs and setuptools, even before eggs were "cool".  (Thanks, guys!)
+
+* Tarek Ziadé is the principal author of the Distribute fork, which
+  re-invigorated the community on the project, encouraged renewed innovation,
+  and addressed many defects.
+
+* Jason R. Coombs performed the merge with Distribute, maintaining the
+  project for several years in coordination with the Python Packaging
+  Authority (PyPA).