从MySQL的作者来看程序大牛的分布

无意中发现authors在MySQL是保留字，执行show authors得到如下结果

Name	Location	Comment
Albert Chin-A-Young		Tru64 port, large file support, better TCP wrappers support
Alexander (Alexi) Ivanov	St. Petersburg, Russia	Replication
Alexander (Bar) Barkov	Izhevsk, Russia	Unicode and character sets (4.1)
Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski	Sofia, Bulgaria	Bug fixing
Alexander (Sasha) Pachev	Provo, UT, USA	Statement-based replication, SHOW CREATE TABLE, mysql-bench
Alexander Nozdrin	Moscow, Russia	Bug fixing (Stored Procedures, 5.0)
Alexey Botchkov (Holyfoot)	Izhevsk, Russia	GIS extensions (4.1), embedded server (4.1), precision math (5.0)
Alexey Stroganov (Ranger)	Lugansk, Ukraine	Testing - Benchmarks
Alexis Mikhailov		User-defined functions
Andreas F. Bobak		AGGREGATE extension to user-defined functions
Andrei Elkin	Espoo, Finland	Replication
Andrey Hristov	Walldorf, Germany	Event scheduler (5.1)
Antony T. Curtis	Norwalk, CA, USA	Parser, port to OS/2, storage engines and some random stuff
Arjen Lentz	Brisbane, Australia	Documentation (2001-2004), Dutch error messages, LOG2()
Benjamin Pflugmann		Extended MERGE storage engine to handle INSERT
Brian (Krow) Aker	Seattle, WA, USA	Architecture, archive, federated, bunch of little stuff :)
Carsten Segieth (Pino)	Fredersdorf, Germany	Testing - Server
David Axmark	Uppsala, Sweden	Small stuff long time ago, Monty ripped it out!
Dmitri Lenev	Moscow, Russia	Time zones support (4.1), Triggers (5.0)
Elliot Murphy	Cocoa, FL, USA	Replication and backup
Eric Herman	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Bug fixing - federated
Gianmassimo Vigazzola		Initial Windows port
Greg (Groggy) Lehey	Uchunga, SA, Australia	Backup
Guilhem Bichot	Bordeaux, France	Replication (since 4.0)
Hakan Küçükyılmaz	Walldorf, Germany	Testing - Server
Igor Romanenko		mysqldump
Ingo Strüwing	Berlin, Germany	Bug fixing
Irena Pancirov		Port to Windows with Borland compiler
Jan Pazdziora		Czech sorting order
Jani Tolonen	Helsinki, Finland	mysqlimport, extensions to command-line clients, PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
Jim Winstead Jr.	Los Angeles, CA, USA	Bug fixing
John Birrell		Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2
Jonas Oreland	Stockholm, Sweden	NDB Cluster, Online Backup, lots of other things
Jonathan (Jeb) Miller	Kyle, TX, USA	Testing - Cluster, Replication
Jorge del Conde	Mexico City, Mexico	Windows development
Joshua Chamas	Cupertino, CA, USA	Concurrent insert, extended date syntax
Kelly Long	Denver, CO, USA	Pool Of Threads
Kent Boortz	Orebro, Sweden	Test platform, and general build stuff
Konstantin Osipov	Moscow, Russia	Prepared statements (4.1), Cursors (5.0)
Kristian Nielsen	Copenhagen, Denmark	General build stuff
Lars Thalmann	Stockholm, Sweden	Replication and cluster development
Lenz Grimmer	Hamburg, Germany	Production (build and release) engineering
Magnus Svensson	Öregrund, Sweden	NDB Cluster: Integration into MySQL, test framework
Marc Alff	Denver, CO, USA	Signal, Resignal, Performance schema
Marc Liyanage		Created Mac OS X packages
Martin Sköld	Stockholm, Sweden	NDB Cluster: Unique indexes, integration into MySQL
Mats Kindahl	Storvreta, Sweden	Replication
Matt Wagner	Northfield, MN, USA	Bug fixing
Matthias Leich	Berlin, Germany	Testing - Server
Mattias Jonsson	Uppsala, Sweden	Partitioning
Michael (Monty) Widenius	Tusby, Finland	Lead developer and main author
Miguel Solorzano	Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil	Windows development, Windows NT service
Mikael Ronström	Stockholm, Sweden	NDB Cluster, Partitioning (5.1), Optimizations
Nikolay Grishakin	Austin, TX, USA	Testing - Server
Oleksandr Byelkin	Lugansk, Ukraine	Query Cache (4.0), Subqueries (4.1), Views (5.0)
Omer BarNir	Sunnyvale, CA, USA	Testing (sometimes) and general QA stuff
Patrick Galbraith	Sharon, NH	Federated Engine, mysqlslap
Pekka Nouisiainen	Stockholm, Sweden	NDB Cluster: BLOB support, character set support, ordered indexes
Per Eric Olsson		Testing of dynamic record format
Per-Erik Martin	Uppsala, Sweden	Stored Procedures (5.0)
Peter Zaitsev	Tacoma, WA, USA	SHA1(), AES_ENCRYPT(), AES_DECRYPT(), bug fixing
Petr Chardin	Moscow, Russia	Instance Manager (5.0), Server log tables (5.1)
Punita Srivastava	Austin, TX, USA	Testing - Merlin
Reggie Burnett	Nashville, TN, USA	Windows development, Connectors
Serge Kozlov	Velikie Luki, Russia	Testing - Cluster
Sergei Golubchik	Kerpen, Germany	Full-text search, precision math
Sergey Vojtovich	Izhevsk, Russia	Plugins infrastructure (5.1)
Sinisa Milivojevic	Larnaca, Cyprus	UNION (4.0), Subqueries in FROM clause (4.1), many other features
TAMITO		The _MB character set macros and UJIS and SJIS character sets
Tim Bunce		mysqlhotcopy
Timothy Smith	Auckland, New Zealand	Dynamic character sets, parts of the build system, libmysqld
Tomas Ulin	Stockholm, Sweden	NDB Cluster: Configuration, installation
Tõnu Samuel		VIO interface, other miscellaneous features
Venu Anuganti		Client/server protocol (4.1)
Wei He		Chinese (GBK) character set
Wei-Jou Chen		Chinese (Big5) character set
Yuri Dario		OS/2 port
Yves Carlier		mysqlaccess
Zarko Mocnik		Sorting for Slovenian language
Zeev Suraski		FROM_UNIXTIME(), ENCRYPT()

里面有不少俄罗斯人啊， 相对之下中国人名太少了