下载Firebird3的发布文档，上面列出了开发团队，仔细看了看，原来俄罗斯人是主导（内核开发），法国人、智利人、巴西人、日本人、荷兰人、捷克人都有。共17人，3人全职。

able 13.1. Firebird Development Teams

Developer               Country                             Major Tasks

Dmitry Yemanov              Russian     Full-time database engineer/implementor, core team leader
                                 Federation

Alex Peshkov               Russian     Full-time security features coordinator; buildmaster; porting
                                 Federation    authority

Claudio Valderrama             Chile      Code scrutineer; bug-finder and fixer; ISQL enhancements;
                                               UDF fixer, designer and implementor

Vladyslav Khorsun           Ukraine      Full-time DB engineer, SQL feature designer/implementor

Adriano dos San-            Brazil      International character-set handling; text and text BLOB en-
         tos Fernandes                         hancements; new DSQL features; code scrutineering

Roman Simakov               Russian     Engine contributions
                                 Federation

Paul Beach               France      Release Manager; HP-UX builds; MacOS Builds; Solaris
                                               Builds

Pavel Cisar            Czech Re-     QA tools designer/coordinator
                                   public

Philippe Makowski            France      QA tester

Paul Reeves               France      Win32 installers and builds

Mark Rotteveel          The Nether-    Jaybird implementor and co-coordinator
                                    lands

Jiri Cincura           Czech Re-     Developer and coordinator of .NET providers
                                   public

Alexander Potapchenko          Russian     Developer and coordinator of ODBC/JDBC driver for Fire-
                                 Federation    bird

Stephen Boyd              Canada      GPRE contributions

Alexey Kovyazin             Russian     Website coordinator
                                 Federation

Paul Vinkenoog           The Nether-    Coordinator, Firebird documentation project; documentation
                                    lands      writer and tools developer/implementor

Norman Dunbar                U.K.       Documentation writer

参考文档：http://web.firebirdsql.org/download/prerelease/rlsnotes/Firebird-3.0.0_Alpha2-ReleaseNotes.pdf

Firebirdsql简介：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c83c6bf010009lu.html