| .. _chapter-acknowledgements: |
| |
| ================ |
| Acknowledgements |
| ================ |
| |
| A number of people have helped with the development and open sourcing |
| of Ceres. |
| |
| Fredrik Schaffalitzky when he was at Google started the development of |
| Ceres, and even though much has changed since then, many of the ideas |
| from his original design are still present in the current code. |
| |
| Amongst Ceres' users at Google two deserve special mention: William |
| Rucklidge and James Roseborough. William was the first user of |
| Ceres. He bravely took on the task of porting production code to an |
| as-yet unproven optimization library, reporting bugs and helping fix |
| them along the way. James is perhaps the most sophisticated user of |
| Ceres at Google. He has reported and fixed bugs and helped evolve the |
| API for the better. |
| |
| Since the initial release of Ceres, a number of people have |
| contributed to Ceres by porting it to new platforms, reporting bugs, |
| fixing bugs and adding new functionality. We acknowledge all of these |
| contributions in the :ref:`chapter-version-history`. |
