At the begining was the void. Then Andrew Morton begun a collection of small scripts for patch management. The contributions came from Stephen Cameron , Matt Reppert and Jeremy Fitzhardinge . Then, Andreas Gruenbacher came to cleanup, reorganize, document and speed up the code. He did also package it to rpm. Finally, Martin Quinson did a debian package and came with several little patches. Andrew Morton Collection of scripts for patch management (patch-scripts). Stephen Cameron Contributed pstatus. Matt Reppert Jeremy Fitzhardinge Contributions to Andrew's scripts. Andreas Gruenbacher Clean up, reorganize, speedups, documentation. Package up as RPM. Gerd Knorr Contributed spec2series. Martin Quinson Several little patches. Package up for Debian.