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