gruftistats was written by Andy "aurikan" Kempling (aurikan@hotmail.com) and 
Colin Phipps <cphipps@doomworld.com>. This is a brief history.

In the beginning, there was MircStats. A very cool program producing a web
page of fun statistics and quotes from an Mirc log. I was talking about it
on IRC, wishing there was a Linux version (so I could automate the stats),
and aurikan decided to write one. I thought it was ambitious.. he proved me
wrong :-).

At the time we had a grufti bot in the channel, so he wrote it to use the
logs from that. He got it up and running, doing the main quotes table and
line counts.

After a pause in development, I picked up the code and added lots of cool
stuff, like the random urls and factoids. I set it up on the server of a
friend of mine (arno@daaave.org), and had it updating a web page hourly.
The program was dubbed GruftiStats, and rapidly we added stuff until it was
as featureful as MircStats.

After a long gap in development, I (Colin) took up updating the program 
again. I changed the name to IRCStats, because I  added support for other 
log formats. However, I was slow to get a release out, and another project 
grabbed the name IRCStats, so we changed the name back again.

If you want to contact us, please check the website first.. the latest version
and information will be available there, and any bug reports can be entered on
the cool bug tracking system. Both of us have been busy with other things in the
past so we've been pretty poor at responding to stuff, but I'm now doing some
long overdue work on gruftistats.

Other people who have contributed to gruftistats:

Aaron Haviland <orion@tribble.dyndns.org> - Patch making fonts configurable, and
 a start on a man page.

Tom "mystican" Robinson <tom@alkali.org> - Donated the bar graphics

Various people who contributed log format files, see the headers on the
individual files.

