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= Contributors to Ruby

The following list might be imcomplete. 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