Hyper is written and maintained by Cory Benfield and various contributors:

Development Lead

Contributors (hpack)

In chronological order:

Sriram Ganesan (@elricL)
- Implemented the Huffman encoding/decoding logic.
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa (@tatsuhiro-t)
- Improved compression efficiency.
Jim Carreer (@jimcarreer)
- Support for 'never indexed' header fields.
- Refactor of header table code.
- Add support for returning bytestring headers instead of UTF-8 decoded ones.
Eugene Obukhov (@irvind)
- Improved decoding efficiency.
Ian Foote (@Ian-Foote)
- 25% performance improvement to integer decode.
Davey Shafik (@dshafik)
- More testing.
Seth Michael Larson (@SethMichaelLarson)
- Code cleanups.
Bulat Khasanov (@KhasanovBI)
- Performance improvement of static header search. Use dict search instead of linear search.

In chronological order:

Alek Storm (@alekstorm)
- Implemented Python 2.7 support.
- Implemented HTTP/2 draft 10 support.
- Implemented server push.
Tetsuya Morimoto (@t2y)
- Fixed a bug where large or incomplete frames were not handled correctly.
- Added hyper command-line tool.
- General code cleanups.
Jerome De Cuyper (@jdecuyper)
- Updated documentation and tests.