From: Phil Hagelberg <phil@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T08:35:44+09:00
Subject: ruby-mode.el copyright assignment


A few months ago there was discussion about moving Ruby's Emacs mode
into the Emacs codebase instead of Ruby's.[1] Unfortunately this seems
to have stalled. I'd like to see this happen, but a couple things are
still pending:

(0) - The contributors need to assign their copyright on ruby-mode.el to
      the FSF. It sounds like this would just be Matz and Nobuyoshi
      Nakada. Can you two contact Chong Yidong (cyd@stupidchicken.com)
      to get this process started?

(1) - ruby-mode.el needs to be better-documented. I'm happy to be in
      charge of this task and have begun to add the appropriate
      docstrings in order to ease the maintenance burden. I will submit
      a patch here once this is ready.

It would be great if inf-ruby.el could also be submitted to
Emacs. According to the comments Matz, Nobu, and someone named "senda"
are the main contributors to this. If I could get Senda's contact info
we could perhaps add this as well.

-Phil

[1] - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-06/msg00051.html