who to thank for the new RST doc format?

[Terry Reedy]

Glenn Hutchings wrote:
> On 18 Nov, 08:46, m... at pixar.com wrote:
>> I am really loving the output, and have started using RST for some
>> of my own docs as well.
>>
>> It's wonderful and I know it was a lot of work on somebody's part
>> to think it through and make the changes.
>>
>> If it was you, Many Thanks!!!
> 
> It *is* good, isn't it?  Direct your thanks at the creator of Sphinx
> (http://sphinx.pocoo.org).

David Goodget was the champion of RST itself.
   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0287/
Georg Brandl pushed its use for Python docs with Sphinx.
Benjamin Peterson has done many of the actual changes, often within a 
day after a suggestion is posted.