Contributors to Ruby¶

The following list might be incomplete. Feel free to add your name if your
patch was accepted into Ruby.

A¶

Ayumu AIZAWA (ayumin)¶

• committer

AKIYOSHI, Masamichi (akiyoshi)¶

• committer
• He had maintained the VMS support on 2003-2004.

Muhammad Ali¶

• wrote rdoc for Fiber

Minero Aoki (aamine)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of:
  • fileutils
  • net/http, net/https
  • net/pop
  • net/smtp
  • racc
  • ripper
  • strscan

Wakou Aoyama (wakou)¶

• committer
• He was the maintainer of some standard libraries.

Koji Arai¶

• committer

arton¶

• He is the distributor of ActiveScriptRuby and experimental 1.9.0-x installers for win32.
• Wrote patches for win32ole, gc.c, tmpdir.rb

B¶

Daniel Berger¶

• a patch for irb
• documentation
• He wrote forwardable.rb

David Black (dblack)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of scanf

Ken Bloom¶

• a patch for REXML.

Oliver M. Bolzer¶

• a patch for soap

Alexey Borzenkov¶

• a patch for mkmf.rb

Richard Brown¶

• a patch for configure.in

Dirkjan Bussink¶

• a patch for date.rb

Daniel Bovensiepen¶

• documentation
• a patch for irb

C¶

Brian Candler¶

• a patch for configure.in, net/telnet

keith cascio¶

• a patch for optparse.rb

Frederick Cheung¶

• a patch for test/ruby/test_symbol.rb

Christoph¶

• patches for set.rb

Sean Chittenden¶

• pathces for net/http, cgi

William D. Clinger¶

• ruby_strtod is based on his paper.

D¶

Ryan Davis (ryan)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of miniunit

Guy Decoux (ts)¶

• committer

Zach Dennis¶

Martin Duerst (duerst)¶

• committer
• M17N

Paul Duncan¶

• pathces for rdoc

Alexander Dymo¶

• a patch for lib/benchmark.rb

E¶

Yusuke Endoh (mame)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of base64 library (1.9)
• did much upon YARV compiler.

erlercw¶

• wrote Integer::gcd2

F¶

Frank S.Fejes¶

• a patch for net/pop

Fundakowski Feldman¶

• a patch for process.c

Mauricio Fernandez¶

• patches for parse.y

David Flanagan (davidflanagan)¶

• committer
• M17N

Takeyuki Fujioka (xibbar)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of cgi/*

FUKUMOTO, Atsushi¶

• a patch for tracer.rb

Shota Fukumori (sorah)¶

• committer
• #4415 parallel unit/test

Tadayoshi Funaba (tadf)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of
  • date
  • parsedate (1.8)
• He ported rational.rb and complex.rb, which 1.8 contains, into rational.c and complex.c of 1.9.

G¶

David M. Gay¶

• ruby_strtod

Florian Gilcher¶

• documentation

GOTOU, Kentaro (gotoken)¶

• committer
• He wrote benchmark.rb
• He is the maintainer of:
  • benchmark.rb
  • open3

GOTOU, Yuuzou (gotoyuzo)¶

• committer

James Edward Gray II (jeg2)¶

• committer
• He wrote the faster implementation of CSV and is the maintainer of csv.
• Wrote documentation for rdoc

H¶

Phil Hagelberg¶

• patch for ruby-mode.el's documentation.

Kirk Haines (wyhaines)¶

• committer
• the maintainer of ruby_1_8_6 branch

Shinichiro Hamaji¶

• fixed memory leaks (marshal.c, string.c)

Shin-ichiro HARA¶

• the developer and the sysop of ruby-{dev,list,core,talk} archive.
• a patch for numeric.c

Chris Heath (traumdeutung)¶

• a patch for proc.c

HIROKAWA Hisashi¶

• fixed socket/socket.c

Daniel Hob¶

• He wrote:
  • SMTP-TLS support for net/smtp.
  • POP3S support

Eric Hodel (drbrain)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of:
  • rdoc
  • ri
  • rubygems

Erik Hollensbe¶

• a patch for delegate.rb

Johan Holmberg¶

• a patch for dir.c
• documentation

Erik Huelsmann¶

Dae San Hwang¶

• built a continuous integration environment on OpenSolaris.

I¶

Nobuhiro IMAI¶

• a patch for logger.rb

"incorporate"¶

• a patch for sprintf.c

Keiju Ishitsuka (keiju)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of:
  • cmath.rb (1.9)
  • complex.rb (1.8)
  • e2mmap.rb
  • forwardable.rb
  • irb
  • mathn
  • matrix.rb
  • mutex_m.rb
  • rational.rb (1.8)
  • sync.rb
  • shell/*
  • thwait.rb
  • tracer.rb

J¶

Curtis Jackson¶

• missing/dup2.c

Alan Johnson¶

• a patch for net/ftp

Lyle Johnson¶

• patches for nkf, bigdecimal, numeric.c

K¶

Yoshihiro Kambayashi¶

• a patch for enc/trans/single_byte.trans.
• He wrote supports for some encodings.

Yutaka Kanemoto¶

• patches for common.mk, AIX AF_INET6 support

Motoyuki Kasahara¶

• He wrote getoptlong.rb

Masahiro Kawato¶

• a patch for shellwords.rb

Wataru Kimura¶

• a patch for configure.in

Michael Klishin¶

• patch for make help.

Noritada Kobayashi¶

• a patch for optparse.rb

Shigeo Kobayashi (shigek)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of bigdecimal

KONISHI, Hiromasa (H_Konishi)¶

• committer
• He had maintained the bcc32 support in 2004.

Kornelius "murphy" Kalnbach¶

• documentation

KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki)¶

• committer
• He wrote current GVL (blame him)

K.Kosako (kosako)¶

• committer
• He wrote Oniguruma.

Takehiro Kubo¶

• patches for dl 64bit support.

L¶

Marc-Andre Lafortune (marcandre)¶

• committer
• patches for hash.c, array.c, thread.c, enumc, string.c, range.c and rdoc documentation.

Hongli Lai¶

• improved pstore.rb
• patch for tool/file2lastrev.rb.

raspberry lemon¶

• a patch for webrick/httpproxy.rb.

Christian Loew¶

• a patch for fileutils.rb

M¶

Shugo Maeda (shugo)¶

• committer
• A system administrator of ruby-lang.org servers.
• He wrote and is the maintainer of:
  • monitor.rb
  • net/ftp
  • net/imap

Stephan Maka (mathew)¶

• documentation

Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz)¶

• Matz -- the founder, language designer of Ruby.
• committer
• Ruby itself, most of Ruby.
• He is the maintainer of:
  • singleton
  • timeout
  • gdbm
  • sdbm

Konrad Meyer¶

• documentation

Mib Software¶

• missing/vsnprintf.c

Todd C. Miller¶

• missing/strlcat.c
• missing/strlcpy.c

MIYASAKA, Masaru¶

• a patch for cgi.rb

Stefan Monnier¶

• regex.c was fixed with based on his Emacs21 patch.

Marcel Moolenaar¶

• patches for eval.c and gc.c.

moonwolf¶

• a patch for REXML, xmlrpc

Hiroshi Moriyama¶

• a patch for yaml.

Kyosuke Morohashi¶

• a patch for gem_prelude.rb

Kenta Murata¶

• committer
• A maintainer of bigdecimal
• patches for json, bignum.c

Akinori MUSHA (knu)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of:
  • abbrev.rb
  • generator (1.8)
  • enumerator (1.8)
  • set
  • ipaddr.rb
  • digest/*
  • syslog
• He is the branch maintainer of ruby_1_8, the release manager of 1.8 series.

N¶

Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of tk/*

Nobuyoshi Nakada (nobu)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. the "patch monster"
• He wrote and is the maintainer of:
  • optparse
  • stringio
  • io/wait
  • iconv

Satoshi Nakagawa¶

• patches for util.c

Narihiro Nakamura (nari)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. authorNari
• working at GC

NAKAMURA, Hiroshi (nahi)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of:
  • csv.rb (1.8)
  • logger.rb
  • soap/* (1.8)
  • wsdl/* (1.8)
  • xsd/* (1.8)

NAKAMURA, Usaku (usa)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. unak
• He is the maintainer of mswin32 and mswin64 support.

NARUSE, Yui (naruse)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. "nurse"
• Did much upon m17n.
• He is the maintainer of:
  • json
  • nkf

Christian Neukirchen¶

• a patch for webrick/httputils

Michael Neumann (mneumann)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of
  • xmlrpc (1.8)
  • gserver (1.8)

NISHIO Hirokazu¶

• wrote a patch for CVE-2010-0541

Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA (kazu)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. znz

Go Noguchi¶

Martin Nordholts¶

• misc/rdebug.el

nmu¶

• a patch for socket

O¶

Rei Odaira¶

• committer
• maintainer of POWER Linux, AIX, and s390x

okkez¶

• He is a sysop of the Ruby Reference Manual Renewal Project.
• fixed ipaddr.rb, ext/etc

Haruhiko Okumura¶

• some of missing/* is based on his book:
  • missing/erf.c
  • missing/lgamma_r.c
  • missing/tgamma.c

OMAE, jun¶

• a patch for debug.rb

Vít Ondruch¶

• The maintainer of the packages on RedHat Linux

Eugene Ossintsev¶

• documentation

P¶

Heesob Park¶

• a patch for win32/win32.c.

pegacorn¶

• a patch for instruby.rb

Q¶

R¶

Gaston Ramos¶

• documentation

The Regents of the University of California¶

• missing/crypt.c
• missing/vsnprintf.c

Sam Roberts¶

• patch for socket
• documentation

Michal Rokos (michal)¶

• committer
• He was the maintainer of DJGPP support.

rubikitch¶

• a patch for io.c

Marcus Rueckert¶

• a patch for mkconfig.rb.

Run Paint Run Run¶

• patch for enc/unicode.c
• documentation

Sean Russell (ser)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of REXML.

S¶

Kazuo Saito (ksaito)¶

• committer
• M17N

Tadashi Saito¶

• patches for test/ruby/test_math.rb, thread_*.c, bignum.c
• working upon BigDecimal.
• did much upon documentation

Masahiro Sakai¶

• a patch for io.c

Laurent Sansonetti¶

• a patch for tool/ytab.sed

Jeff Saracco¶

• documentation

Koichi Sasada (ko1)¶

• committer
• He wrote YARV.

Hugh Sasse¶

• a patch for net/http
• documentation

Charlie Savage¶

• a patch for win32/Makefile.sub

Michael Scholz¶

• a patch for ruby-mode.el

Richard Schneeman (schneems)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of
  • syntax_suggest

Arthur Schreiber¶

• patch for net/http and rdoc.

Masatoshi SEKI (seki)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of:
  • drb/*
  • erb
  • rinda

Roman Shterenzon¶

• a patch for open-uri.

Kent Sibilev¶

Gavin Sinclair (gsinclair)¶

• committer

John W. Small¶

• He wrote gserver.rb

Yuki Sonoda (yugui)¶

• committer
• She is the maintainer of man/* manual pages and is the release manager of 1.9 series.
• She wrote prime.rb.
• A developer and a sysop of redmine.ruby-lang.org.

SOUMA, Yutaka¶

• a patch for pack.c.

Tatsuki Sugiura¶

• WebDAV support for net/http

Masaki Suketa (suke)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of win32ole

sheepman¶

• patches for ruby.c, thread.c, stringio, enum.c, webrick, net/http

Siena. (siena)¶

• committer

Kirill A. Shutemov¶

• a patch for parse.y

Darren Smith¶

• a patch for golf_prelude.rb

Richard M. Stallman¶

• missing/alloca.c

Robin Stocker¶

• documentation

Adam Strzelecki¶

• a patch for compile.c

Masashi Sumi¶

• improved net/pop.rb

Eric Sunshine¶

• NeXT OpenStep, Rhapsody support

Kouhei Sutou (kou)¶

• committer
• He wrote and is the maintainer of rss/*

David Symonds¶

• documentation

soleboxy¶

• Contribute patch for net/ftp

T¶

TAKANO Mitsuhiro (takano32)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of IA-64 support.
• BigDecimal

TAKAO, Kouji (kouji)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of readline.

Nathaniel Talbott (ntalbott)¶

• committer
• He was the maintainer of test/unit, runit, rubyunit.

TANAKA, Akira (akr)¶

• committer
• Did much upon m17n.
• And he is the maintainer of:
  • open-uri
  • pathname
  • pp
  • resolv-replace
  • resolv
  • time
  • tsort

Takaaki Tateishi (ttate)¶

• committer
• He was the maintainer of dl

Technorama Ltd. (technoroma)¶

• committer
• openssl

Andrew Thompson¶

• a patch for socket.c IRIX support.

Dave Thomas (dave)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. the Pragmatic Programmer.
• He wrote rdoc.

Tietew¶

• patches for win32 support

Masahiro Tomita¶

• a patch for cgi.rb

Jakub Travnik¶

• a patch for eval.c

Tom Truscott¶

• missing/crypt.c

Masaya TARUI¶

• comitter

U¶

UEDA, Satoshi¶

• a patch for uri

Takaaki Uematsu (uema2)¶

• committer
• He was the maintainer of WinCE support.

UENO, Katsuhiro (katsu)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of zlib

Hajimu UMEMOTO¶

• He wrote ipaddr.rb

URABE, Shyouhei (shyouhei)¶

• committer
• a.k.a. mput.
• He is the branch maintainer of ruby_1_8_6 and ruby_1_8_7
• and is the release manager of 1.8.x-pXXX.

V¶

Joel VanderWerf¶

• a patch for numeric.c

Peter Vanbroekhoven¶

Corinna Vinschen¶

W¶

wanabe (wanabe)¶

• committer
• fixed YARV and Oniguruma.

Chun Wang¶

• a patch for time.rb

WATANABE, Hirofumi (eban)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of
  • ftools (1.8)
  • tmpdir
  • un
  • Win32API

WATANABE, Tetsuya¶

• a patch for ruby.c

William Webber (wew)¶

• committer

Jim Weirich (jim)¶

• committer
• He wrote Rake.

Nathan Weizenbaum¶

• fixed misc/ruby-mode.el.

why the lukky stiff (why)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of syck

Caley Woods¶

• documentation

Gary Wright¶

• documentation

X¶

Y¶

Akira Yamada (akira)¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer of ruby related packages at Debian project.

Keita Yamaguchi¶

• patches for enum.c, parse.y
• documentation

Hirokazu Yamamoto (ocean)¶

• committer

Hirotaka Yoshioka¶

• a patch for improving SEGV handling

Z¶

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov¶

• a patch for io.c

Alexander Zavorine¶

• committer
• He is the maintainer for Symbian OS.

Chiyuan Zhang¶

• a patch for misc/ruby-mode.el.

Dee Zsombor (zunda)¶

• a patch for thread_pthread.c

Dan Zwell¶

• a patch for net/pop