From: Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@...>
Date: 2012-06-17T04:56:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Syntax Highlighter

On 06/15/2012 10:59 PM, Marc Heiler wrote:
>> Without a commitment from the developer to take on these
>> contributions, this call to arms seems like a waste of effort.
>> It seems pretty clear that the author has been sitting on a
>> lot of scanner contributions for ~2 years (many of which I
>> could use right now) and hasn't done anything with them.
> I think the author is murphy. I don't know how it was for you,
> but I wrote to him some months ago about the choice of colours
> and had some email exchanges, which were productive. So I would
> not say that he is inactive at all.
>
> He can however reply here when he finds the time and someone
> shows him the link to it. :-)
>
>>> Has anyone privately contacted the maintainer with a specific plan?
>> That should be the cheerleader's job.
> Well. I'd say the first thing to do is get to point out this
> thread to murphy. He'll surely be able to find 2-4 minutes to
> just write a short reply whether he plans to merge in syntax
> changes like the lua parser, and if not why not, and then these
> problems can eventually be fixed.
>
> So I think, the first thing that should be done is to find murphy.
>
> Murphy, where are you!
>
contacted via mail with link to ruby-forum, 'cause I wasn't sure murphy has subscribed to ruby-talk