It's really pretty clear to me at this point that there's no point in expecting current Ruby Central leadership to address the harms to date. At every turn they could have done something meaningful to get the train back on the track, and instead they engaged in more corporate-speak word salad that sounds like what non-technical people say whey they're trying to convert an email some hapless programmer sent them into legalese for a C-suite.

Time for new leadership.

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And here's perhaps the weirdest thing about this Q&A update…it feels completely disconnected from the transfer of the repos to Ruby Core's ownership. Like, maybe you’d take out a couple of sentences, and if that transfer had never happened, this document could remain identical.

My guess? A lot of this was written before that transfer even happened. So that's why almost nothing here addresses the transfer. How does Ruby Core fit into the past month's events? Beats me!

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“On the client tools side, while the repos could have been forked, as long as individuals could publish the gems from any source they want, no forked repository could have been the canonical and secure source of the tools.”

I have no idea what this word salad means. I really have no idea.

And this goes for a lot of the technical details. I don't understand what they're saying. Either I'm very stupid (it's possible), or they continue to obfuscate.

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“The Board acted independently in their decision based on the internal timeline that was set; there was no sponsor-imposed funding deadline. Ruby Central maintains standard sponsorship agreements that do not grant operational control…sponsors were only briefed as part of normal communication and were not involved in any decisions or deadlines. ”

I don't believe this. I simply flat-out don't believe this. It flies in the face of all outside reporting to date.

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“Discussions about transferring the RubyGems and Bundler repositories under the Ruby Core team have been ongoing for several years.”

Oh really? This is the first I've heard of it. And believe me, I read just about every hot take and loose thread of debate in the past month across multiple Discords and social media. Nobody mentioned “the likely outcome here based on past conversations is Matz steps in and Ruby Core takes over”. That announcement felt out of the blue.

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Other than significant swaths of this text feeling machine-generated to me (or else it's the most bland corporate-speak on the planet), not much stands out here other than a handful of statements which are either factual (and all reporting to date is wrong) or bullshit.

I'll comment on a few of them below…

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https://rubycentral.org/news/source-of-truth-update-friday-october-24-2025/

Source of Truth Update – Friday, October 24, 2025

We appreciate the community’s patience and grace as we briefly paused our regular cadence of weekly updates. Out of respect for last week’s announcement from Matz and its importance to the community, we held this Q&A until today. For this week’s update, we’re sharing a

Ruby Central

Matz Is Not Nice And So I Will Not Be Nice (MINNASIWNBN)

Let's get the technical news out of the way first. Does it “make sense” for #Ruby Core to own the repositories for Rubygems and Bundler? Sure. That sort of logic is borne out in other language communities.

The problem isn't technical, it's political. Ruby Core is now an accomplice to the crime. One of their own helped engineer the original #RubyCentralTakeover, and now they've officially taken over! 1/

I just keep thinking of all the ghouls who dog-piled on André. 🙄

I'll post more thoughts tomorrow, but once again it is becoming clear to me that *Ruby Central has embarrassed itself so thoroughly* at this point I can't imagine this organization lasting for much longer. It is farcical.

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I will refrain, for now, from speaking publicly on the recent #Ruby Central news regarding their security disclosures. Not because I don't have strong feelings about it, but because that's all I have. While it's good that RC is sharing something that's more than platitudes, the thing they shared and how they shared it is…intense.

I'm going to let the dust settle a bit before forming a conclusion. I also believe anyone who's jumping on this to settle scores is ghoulish.

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Also shoutout to @[email protected] for yet another DHH takedown. A lot of folks have been focusing on DHH’s latest article about the far-right marches in London, but I'm still steamed from his absolutely bonkers alignment with Trumpism & Elonism back in 2024.

I'm sorry, but when you cozy up to anti-democratic criminals, you have lost *all* credibility and there's no more good faith dialogue to be had.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

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DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com

DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.