Both TortoiseSVN and Subversion are developed by a community of people who are working on those projects. They come from different countries all over the world, working together to create great software.
In 2002, Tim Kemp found that Subversion was a very good version control system, but it lacked a good GUI client. The idea for a Subversion client as a Windows shell integration was inspired by the similar client for CVS named TortoiseCVS. Tim studied the source code of TortoiseCVS and used it as a base for TortoiseSVN. He then started the project, registered the domain tortoisesvn.org and put the source code online.
Around that time, Stefan Küng was looking for a good and free version control system and found Subversion and the source for TortoiseSVN. Since TortoiseSVN was still not ready for use, he joined the project and started programming. He soon rewrote most of the existing code and started adding commands and features, up to a point where nothing of the original code remained.
As Subversion became more stable it attracted more and more users who also started using TortoiseSVN as their Subversion client. The user base grew quickly (and is still growing every day). That's when Lübbe Onken offered to help out with some nice icons and a logo for TortoiseSVN. He now takes care of the website and manages the many translations.
TortoiseSVN 项目的发起者
for the hard work to get TortoiseSVN to what it is now, and his leadership of the project
制作了漂亮的图标，Logo，跟踪错误，翻译并且维护翻译结果
for maintaining the documentation
for the log cache and revision graph
为了对 Subversion 大量介绍，我们复制了其第二章
我们在本文重用了一些样式
for the patches, bug reports and new ideas, and for helping others by answering questions on our mailing list
他们发送给我们的那些音乐带来了快乐