The creation of abuild would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support of my employer, Argon ST. Argon not only recognized the important role of a strong build tool in contributing to the overall quality and reliability of its software, but saw the value of releasing it to the open source community in hopes of making an even broader contribution.
There are many people within Argon who helped take abuild to where it is now, but among these, a handful of people deserve special mention:
Chris Costa, who served as a sounding board and contributed numerous ideas throughout the entire development process of abuild, including conducting a thorough review of this document
Andrew Hayden, who spent many hours reviewing and critiquing this entire document and who was the visionary behind Xenon, the abuild Eclipse plugin
Joe Davidson, the primary abuild evangelist who has been invaluable in getting abuild to become as widely accepted within Argon ST as it is
Gavin Mulligan, who has consistently taken the time to report any problem, no matter how small, and who is probably responsible for reporting more issues than everyone else combined
Bob Tamaru, who in addition to being a mentor and supporter for most of my career, provided considerable assistance to me as I presented the case to Argon ST to allow me to release abuild as an open source project