RubyGems Fracture Incident Report
RubyGems Fracture Incident Report By: Richard Schneeman This document attempts to give closure to the Ruby community about the events that led to the incident, September 10-18, 2025, which I’ve named “RubyGems Fracture.” Preamble I joined Ruby Central’s Open Source Committee on October 22nd, 2025, after the GitHub access changes. I was adamant internally and externally from day one about performing a retrospective to try to wrap my head around the full, true picture of what happened and why. In the pursuit of this task, I’ve spent 20+ hours interviewing and chasing up leads, easily quadrupling that time spent reviewing other artifacts such as chats and raw GitHub access logs. For any fact learned verbally, I’ve cross-referenced it with either another independent…
