The NetBeans Open Source project cannot exist without contributions from the community.
Special credit is given to
for releasing the source code of the NetBeans IDE to the public and paying the salaries of many people involved in this project.
Additional credit is given to the following people who contributed to NetBeans IDE 7.3 release (in alphabetical order and independent of the amount of their contributions with usernames in parenthesis):
| Developers | Testers |
| Denis Anisimov (ads) | William Bacchi (williambacchi) |
| Stanislav Aubrecht (saubrecht) | Aldo Brucale (aldobrucale) |
| Jaroslav Bachorík (yardus) | Augusto Campos (augcampos) |
| Dušan Bálek (dbalek) | Petr Cyhelský (cyhelsky) |
| Jan Bečička (jbecicka) | Tomáš Daněk (musilt2) |
| Peter Benedikovic (piotrik) | Jose Galaviz (mago_ebon) |
| Ralph Benjamin Ruijs (ralphbenjamin) | Michel Graciano (hmichel) |
| Ondřej Brejla (obrejla) | Kent Grundström (Chiana) |
| Petr Cyhelský (cyhelsky) | Junming Guan (fortruth) |
| Svatopluk Dědic (sdedic) | Medea Gugushvili (medeag) |
| Martin Entlicher (mentlicher) | David Heffelfinger (dheffelfinger) |
| Libor Fischmeistr (lfischmeistr) | Tushar Joshi (tusharvjoshi) |
| Martin Fousek (marfous) | Anton V. Kirilchik (kosmonaffft) |
| Marek Fukala (mfukala) | Jiří Kovalský (jkovalsky) |
| Ken Ganfield (kganfield) | Thomas Kruse (everflux) |
| Petr Gebauer (pgebauer) | Jonathan Lermitage (ent38) |
| Jaroslav Havlín (jhavlin) | Benno Markiewicz (markiewb) |
| Petr Hejl (phejl) | Efrem McCrimon (efremmc2) |
| Tomáš Hůrka (thurka) | Marián Mirilovič (mmirilovic) |
| Martin Janíček (mjanicek) | Goran Miskovic (schkovich) |
| Petr Jiřička (pjiricka) | Marco Molteni (marco76) |
| Miloš Kleint (mkleint) | Michael Müller (muellermi) |
| Nikolay Koldunov (Henk89) | Manikantan Narender Nath (manikantannaren) |
| David Konečný (dkonecny) | Michael Nascimento Santos (misterm) |
| Martin Kožený (mkozeny) | Viggo Navarsete (viggonavarsete) |
| Nikolay Krasilnikov (nnnnnk) | Javier Ortiz Bultron (javydreamercsw) |
| Andrew Krasny (akrasny) | Scott Palmer (swpalmer) |
| Tomáš Kraus (TomasKraus) | Hermien Pellissier (mienamoo) |
| Milutin Kristofic (mkristofic) | Alied Perez (alied) |
| Vladimir Kvashin (vkvashin) | Jim Powell (powelljf3) |
| Jan Lahoda (jlahoda) | Jiří Prox (jiriprox) |
| Miloslav Metelka (mmetelka) | Saptarshi Purkayastha (sunbiz) |
| Marián Mirilovič (mmirilovic) | Angelo Quaglia (aquaglia) |
| Tomáš Myšík (tmysik) | Sven Reimers (sreimers) |
| Antonín Nebuželský (anebuzelsky) | Edson Richter (ecerichter) |
| Igor Nikiforov (igor_nikiforov) | Vladimír Říha (vriha) |
| Theofanis Oikonomou (theofanis) | Dhawal Saiya (dds.dhawal) |
| Tomáš Pávek (tpavek) | Paolo Scarabelli (paolosca) |
| Jan Peška (JPESKA) | Pavel Selivanov (Selpi) |
| Sergey Petrov (sj-nb) | Mario Schroeder (ma.schroed) |
| Petr Pišl (ppisl) | Lehel Sipos (lehel) |
| Petr Podzimek (PetrPodzimek) | Jiří Skřivánek (jskrivanek) |
| Jiří Řechtáček (jrechtacek) | Martin Skurla (crazyjavahacking) |
| Vladimír Říha (vriha) | Marcin Starnacki (mstarnacki) |
| Jiří Sedláček (jis) | Holger Stenzhorn (host) |
| Alexander Simon (alexvsimon) | Yonathan Weldegebriel (ytn01) |
| Jiří Skřivánek (jskrivanek) | Stefan Wilfling (stefan79) |
| Ivan Soleimanipour (ivan) | Mark Wilmoth (macksix) |
| Petr Somol (psomol) | Štěpán Žebra (stezeb) |
| Alyona Stashkova (AlyonaStashkova) | |
| Tomáš Stupka (tstupka) | |
| Adam Šenk (asenk) | |
| Jan Štola (jstola) | |
| David Štrupl (dstrupl) | |
| Maria Tishkova (mromashova) | |
| Jaroslav Tulach (jtulach) | |
| Egor Ushakov (gorrus) | |
| Vladimir Voskresensky (vv159170) | |
| Ondřej Vrabec (ovrabec) | |
| Tomáš Zezula (tzezula) |
If you are not listed here but feel you should be, please let us know and please give details of your contribution: for example, references to mailing list archives, Bugzilla, HG changesets, etc.
Many thanks also go to the people who contributed ideas or gave time to help others on the mailing lists.