RubyGems Fracture Incident Report
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actionability 9
community 9
strategic 7
personal 8
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Summary
Ruby Central's inability to directly manage GitHub Business/Enterprise admin rights during offboarding triggered a September 2025 walkout by six core maintainers. The fracture stemmed from neglected offboarding runbooks and the conflation of GitHub access with production control, exposing critical single-point-of-failure risks in open source project governance.