Maintainers ↑

This page describes the current branch, module, library, and extension maintainers of Ruby.

Branch Maintainers ↑

A branch maintainer is responsible for backporting commits into stable branches and publishing Ruby patch releases.

The list of current branch maintainers is available in the wiki.

Module Maintainers ↑

A module maintainer is responsible for a certain part of Ruby.

  • The maintainer fixes bugs of the part. Particularly, they should fix security vulnerabilities as soon as possible.

  • They handle issues related the module on the Redmine or ML.

  • They may be discharged by the 3 months rule [ruby-core:25764].

  • They have commit right to Ruby’s repository to modify their part in the repository.

  • They have “developer” role on the Redmine to modify issues.

  • They have authority to decide the feature of their part. But they should always respect discussions on ruby-core/ruby-dev.

A submaintainer of a module is like a maintainer. But the submaintainer does not have authority to change/add a feature on his/her part. They need consensus on ruby-core/ruby-dev before changing/adding. Some of submaintainers have commit right, others don’t.

No maintainer means that there is no specific maintainer for the part now. The member of ruby core team can fix issues at anytime. But major changes need consensus on ruby-core/ruby-dev.

Language core features including security ↑

  • Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz)

Evaluator ↑

  • Koichi Sasada (ko1)

Core classes ↑

  • Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz)

Standard Library Maintainers ↑

lib/mkmf.rb ↑

  • No maintainer

pathname_builtin.rb, lib/pathname.rb ↑

  • Tanaka Akira (akr)

lib/rubygems.rb, lib/rubygems/* ↑

lib/unicode_normalize.rb, lib/unicode_normalize/* ↑

lib/ruby/prism.rb, lib/ruby/prism/, prism/ ↑

Standard Library(Extensions) Maintainers ↑

set.c ↑

  • Akinori MUSHA (knu)

ext/continuation ↑

  • Koichi Sasada (ko1)

ext/coverage ↑

  • Yusuke Endoh (mame)

ext/fiber ↑

  • Koichi Sasada (ko1)

ext/monitor ↑

  • Koichi Sasada (ko1)

ext/objspace ↑

  • No maintainer

ext/pathname ↑

  • Tanaka Akira (akr)

ext/pty ↑

  • No maintainer

ext/ripper ↑

  • No maintainer

ext/socket ↑

  • Tanaka Akira (akr)

  • API change needs matz’s approval

ext/win32 ↑

  • NAKAMURA Usaku (unak)

Default gems(Libraries) Maintainers ↑

lib/bundler.rb, lib/bundler/* ↑

lib/cgi/escape.rb ↑

  • No maintainer

lib/English.rb ↑

lib/delegate.rb ↑

lib/did_you_mean.rb ↑

ext/digest, ext/digest/* ↑

lib/erb.rb ↑

lib/error_highlight.rb, lib/error_highlight/* ↑

lib/fileutils.rb ↑

lib/find.rb ↑

lib/forwardable.rb ↑

lib/ipaddr.rb ↑

lib/optparse.rb, lib/optparse/* ↑

lib/net/http.rb, lib/net/https.rb ↑

lib/net/protocol.rb ↑

lib/open3.rb ↑

lib/open-uri.rb ↑

lib/pp.rb ↑

lib/prettyprint.rb ↑

lib/resolv.rb ↑

lib/securerandom.rb ↑

lib/shellwords.rb ↑

lib/singleton.rb ↑

lib/tempfile.rb ↑

lib/time.rb ↑

lib/timeout.rb ↑

lib/tmpdir.rb ↑

lib/un.rb ↑

lib/uri.rb, lib/uri/* ↑

lib/yaml.rb, lib/yaml/* ↑

lib/weakref.rb ↑

Default gems(Extensions) Maintainers ↑

ext/cgi ↑

  • Nobuyoshi Nakada (nobu)

ext/date ↑

ext/etc ↑

ext/fcntl ↑

ext/io/console ↑

ext/io/nonblock ↑

ext/io/wait ↑

ext/json ↑

ext/openssl ↑

ext/psych ↑

ext/stringio ↑

ext/strscan ↑

ext/zlib ↑

Bundled gems upstream repositories and maintainers ↑

The maintenance policy of bundled gems is different from Module Maintainers above. Please check the policies for each repository.

The ruby core team tries to maintain the repositories with no maintainers. It may needs to make consensus on ruby-core/ruby-dev before making major changes.

minitest ↑

power_assert ↑

rake ↑

test-unit ↑

rexml ↑

rss ↑

net-imap ↑

net-smtp ↑

matrix ↑

prime ↑

rbs ↑

typeprof ↑

debug ↑

racc ↑

mutex_m ↑

getoptlong ↑

base64 ↑

bigdecimal ↑

observer ↑

abbrev ↑

resolv-replace ↑

rinda ↑

drb ↑

nkf ↑

syslog ↑

csv ↑

ostruct ↑

pstore ↑

benchmark ↑

logger ↑

rdoc ↑

win32ole ↑

irb ↑

reline ↑

readline ↑

fiddle ↑

repl_type_completor ↑

tsort ↑

win32-registry ↑

prism ↑

Platform Maintainers ↑

mswin64 (Microsoft Windows) ↑

  • NAKAMURA Usaku (unak)

mingw32 (Minimalist GNU for Windows) ↑

  • Nobuyoshi Nakada (nobu)

AIX ↑

FreeBSD ↑

  • Akinori MUSHA (knu)

Solaris ↑

RHEL, CentOS ↑

macOS ↑

  • Kenta Murata (mrkn)

OpenBSD ↑

cygwin, … ↑

  • No maintainer

WebAssembly/WASI ↑