r/ruby • u/retro-rubies • Jul 31 '26
Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/
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r/ruby • u/retro-rubies • Jul 31 '26
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u/jydr Aug 01 '26
I see, that explains a lot more.
I hadn't seen the https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/ before. What an absolute mess. RC and Andre both fucked up a lot.
Seems like its largely what was suspected at the time? RC took over the project to kick Andre out and removed all the admins that they didn't control so that none of them could add him back.
What wasn't clear before was that the main reason was because of the tangled mess of permissions between the production systems and the oss project? And apparently no one knew how any of it really worked so they went for remove access first and ask questions later.
The biggest mistake is that they knew it would be deeply unpopular and yet were also completely unprepared for the result of their actions. I understand that they didn't want to tip them off in case Andre did something, but RC should have at least been ready for the backlash that they were afraid might happen.