ruby modes package very out of date

[Asfand Yar Qazi]

On 2/10/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Asfand Yar Qazi writes:
>
>  > The ruby modes package is using a very very old version of
>  > ruby-mode.el.  Could it please be updated?  The latest one is
>  > available from the latest ruby tarballs (but I'm sure whoever's in
>  > charge of it knows this already).
>
> Nobody knows, because nobody's in charge of that package.  Package
> updates are handled by volunteers, just like everything else in
> XEmacs.  There has been no maintainer for that package since January
> 2003.
>
> Would you like to be in charge of the ruby modes?  If so, send mail to
> cvs-manager at xemacs.org with an SSH key (preferably SSH2, but SSH1 is
> acceptable) and a preferred nickname.  If nobody on the review board
> has an objection, we'll give you the necessary permission to update
> CVS.  Actually making the packages is done by XEmacs staff; all you
> need to do is to keep the package up to date and keep an eye on the
> various related channels for ruby mode bug reports and new upstream
> releases.
>

I'd be happy to do that - but there's one problem - I know nothing of
emacs-lisp.  I noticed in the existing ruby-mode package that there
are a few customisations made to the lisp files for xemacs - I
wouldn't know anything about them.  And fixing bugs would be
challenging, to say the least.

Still, this doesn't actually seem like a very demanding role, so I'd
be willing to give it a go - as long as I had lots of help from other
xemacs users with lisp :-)