diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5ed3d266c --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Contributors of DMLC/XGBoost +======= +XGBoost has been developed and used by a group of active community. Everyone is more than welcomed to is a great way to make the project better and more accessible to more users. + +Comitters +======= +Committers are people who have made substantial contribution to the project and granted write access to the project. +* [Tianqi Chen](https://github.com/tqchen), University of Washington + - Tianqi is a PhD working on large-scale machine learning, he is the creator of the project. +* [Tong He](https://github.com/hetong007), Simon Fraser University + - Tong is a master student working on data mining, he is the maintainer of xgboost R package. +* [Bing Xu](https://github.com/antinucleon) + - Bing is the original creator of xgboost python package and currently the maintainer of [XGBoost.jl](https://github.com/antinucleon/XGBoost.jl). +* [Michael Benesty](https://github.com/pommedeterresautee) + - Micheal is a lawyer, data scientist in France, he is the creator of xgboost interactive analysis module in R. + +List of Contributors +======= +* [Full List of Contributors](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/graphs/contributors) + - To contributors: please add your name to the list when you submit a patch to the project:) +* [Kailong Chen](https://github.com/kalenhaha) +* [Skipper Seabold](https://github.com/jseabold) +* [Zygmunt ZajÄ…c](https://github.com/zygmuntz) +* [Ajinkya Kale](https://github.com/ajkl) +* [Boliang Chen](https://github.com/cblsjtu) +* [Vadim Khotilovich](https://github.com/khotilov) +* [Yangqing Men](https://github.com/yanqingmen) +* [Engpeng Yao](https://github.com/yepyao) +* [Giulio](https://github.com/giuliohome) +* [Jamie Hall](https://github.com/nerdcha) +* [Yen-Ying Lee](https://github.com/white1033) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e6f5d69d1..4a5e7bf6e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DMLC/XGBoost An optimized general purpose gradient boosting library. The library is parallelized, and also provides an optimized distributed version. It implements machine learning algorithms under the [Gradient Boosting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting) framework, including [Generalized Linear Model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_linear_model) (GLM) and [Gradient Boosted Decision Trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting#Gradient_tree_boosting) (GBDT). XGBoost can also be [distributed](#features) and scale to Terascale data -Contributors: https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/graphs/contributors +Checkout our [Comitters and Contributors](CONTRIBUTORS.md) who keep make xgboost better. Documentations: [Documentation of dmlc/xgboost](doc/README.md) @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Contributing to XGBoost XGBoost has been developed and used by a group of active community. Everyone is more than welcomed to is a great way to make the project better and more accessible to more users. * Checkout [Feature Wish List](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/labels/Wish-List) to see what can be improved, or open an issue if you want something. * Contribute to the [documents and examples](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/blob/master/doc/) to share your experience with other users. +* Please add your name to [CONTRIBUTORS.md](CONTRIBUTORS.md) after your patch has been merged. Features ========