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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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