Ruby Central's Removal of Maintainers Sparks Community Backlash and Alternative Service Development
By
chmaynard
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
Ruby Central, a nonprofit corporation, revoked GitHub privileges from long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging tools in what the community calls a hostile takeover. The organization has issued public statements that failed to satisfy the Ruby community, leading former contributors to work on an alternative service called gem.coop. Ownership of RubyGems and Bundler repositories was transferred to the Ruby core team despite these projects never having been under their control previously.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledIn September, a group of long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging tools projects had their GitHub privileges revoked by nonprofit corporation Ruby Central
what many people are calling a hostile takeover
Ruby Central and its board members have issued several public statements that have, so far, failed to satisfy many in the Ruby community
some of the former contributors to RubyGems are working on an alternative service called gem.coop
ownership of the RubyGems and Bundler repositories was handed over to the Ruby core team, even though those projects had never been under their control previously
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