# Source: https://jackaudio.org/

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title: "JACK Developer Information"
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# JACK Developer Information

Want to use JACK in your software? Great, grab the [source] and see the [docs].

## Want to get involved?

How about getting on the [mailing list].
Filipe Coelho (aka falkTX) is the current maintainer of this project.

## Found a bug?

Send your report to the respective bug-trackers of
[jack1] or [jack2] or send your report to the [mailing list].

This homepage is maintained as a community effort and has it's own
bugtracker.

For anything else send a mail to the [mailing list] people
are friendly and will respond if they can.

## Contributors

JACK was inspired by and partially designed during discussions on the
Linux Audio Developers mailing list. Particularly significant
contributions to those discussions came from (in alphabetical order):

* Paul Davis
* Richard Günther
* David Olofson
* Benno Sennoner
* Kai Vehmanen

Paul Davis was the principal author of the JACK API and of its sample
implementation. Very significant contributions have been made by:

* Jack O'Quin
* Bob Ham
* Steve Harris
* Stephane Letz
* Taybin Rutkin
* Ian Esten

Jack O'Quin frequently acted as the primary maintainer of JACK for long
periods, and has contributed many new interfaces and bug fixes.

Stephane Letz ported JACK to OS X and wrote the new C++ SMP-aware
implementation [jackdmp].
He and Johnny Petrantoni created [JackOSX], including JACK and utilities for OS X.

Rui Nuno Capela wrote the fantastic JACK control application "qjackctl".

Others who have contributed to JACK in ways large and small:

* Andy Wingo,
* Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano,
* Jeremy Hall,
* Steve Harris,
* Martin Boer,
* Melanie Thielker,
* Jussi Laako,
* Tilman Linneweh,
* Karsten Weise,
* Lee Revell,
* Jesse Chappel,
* Filipe Coelho,
* Robin Gareus


[docs]:         /api/
[source]:       /downloads/
[mailing list]: /community.html
[jack1]:        https://github.com/jackaudio/jack1
[jack2]:        https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2
[jackdmp]:      https://web.archive.org/web/20120606050919/http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html
[JackOSX]:      https://web.archive.org/web/20180531095918/http://jackosx.com/