Keynote: The Success of Ruby on Rails
summary
Claims that Shopify contributed since day one and that Rails maintenance now runs across five teams (core, committers, issues, triage, security) are backed by examples: a public Discord and scheduled review rounds are being added, the stalebot is disabled, multiple-database APIs from GitHub were upstreamed, and several companies run production off Main. Concrete asks: build a dedicated team, upstream monkey patches, measure upgrades, and treat contributions as product-level investments.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:34The History of Rails
- 20:38My History of Rails
- 22:50Why I work on Rails.
- 25:59Investing in Rails.
- 39:18Why leaders don't fund
- 42:56How to convince leadership.
- 48:15Why invest in Rails?
