Meet Fifteen Ruby Core Committers
We all know Yukihiro Matsumoto invented Ruby, but how many of the other people behind Ruby can you name? Judging from this photo taken just a few weeks ago at RubyKaigi 2013, the Ruby 2.0 release was a real team effort, with commits both from the people on stage in Tokyo and hundreds of other open source developers located around the world.
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However, many of the most active developers behind the Ruby 2.0 release are Japanese, largely unknown to the Ruby world outside of Japan because of the language barrier. Recently I asked the Ruby 2.0 release manager, Yusuke Endoh, to send a few questions to the Ruby 2.0 committers located in Japan. I was curious who they were, what each of them worked on and what they’re like as people. Fourteen other developers replied to his survey; read on to take a look behind the language barrier and meet some of the people in Japan behind this year’s Ruby 2.0 release.
Read the full interview on RubySource.com.