Hi, yes this issue would be fixed once Github upgrades the Ruby implementation of the parser.

To upgrade the version it takes making a pull request to the github/markup repository so that they bump the version and do the release, but it takes some time before the upgrade is validated (security checks, etc...)
There another couple of issues that I would like it that they make it to Github, so once having those tackled I'll see if I can ask one of the maintainers to help out planning for an update soon.

Cheers


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com> wrote:
Julian Gehring wrote:
> On 01.05.2014 14:17, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> Julian Gehring wrote:
>>> How I can convince github to recognize the '#+TITLE:' field of an
>>> org-file?  This should be a 'h1' heading, while it is currently
>>> treated as normal text (for example, see
>>> https://github.com/julian-gehring/vignettes/blob/master/README.org).
>>> I know that this is a problem of the parsing on github's site, but
>>> is anyone aware of a good solution?
>>
>> That was supposed to be solved.
>>
>> See https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby/issues/3
>
> Nice. So it seems that github is using an older version of org-ruby.  Is it
> clear what the update policy/cycle of github for softwares like org-ruby is?

Unfortunately, not to me... ;-)

Best regards,
  Seb

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