On September 19, Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization that manages RubyGems.org, a platform for sharing Ruby code and libraries, asserted control over several GitHub repositories for Ruby Gems as well as other critical Ruby open source projects that the rest of the Ruby development community relies on.
Uhm, so how does this happen? If some people create Ruby Gems and host them under their own github account, how would Ruby Central suddenly assert control over them?
And even that was only possible because ruby central had been acting as a steward for these open source projects that these maintainers had built under one enterprise github account.
Ruby central does not actually own bundler or the other projects they locked down, the community at large does. They just control the github, and opted to bend to right wing pressure from Shopify and DHH and likely illegally took control of them.
They have backpedalled and said they will allow access back to the people that built and maintained these tools for a decade once they sign various agreements, but most have already fully quit or have stated they will not sign any agreement that comes handed down from Shopify/facists like DHH. On the plus side, some of them have been working on an alternative to rubygems, so there may be a community driven option for gems again soon.
Uhm, so how does this happen? If some people create Ruby Gems and host them under their own github account, how would Ruby Central suddenly assert control over them?
Ruby Gems in that paragraph refers to the codebase which runs the shared repository on RubyGems.org not the Gems that are hosted there.
And even that was only possible because ruby central had been acting as a steward for these open source projects that these maintainers had built under one enterprise github account.
Ruby central does not actually own bundler or the other projects they locked down, the community at large does. They just control the github, and opted to bend to right wing pressure from Shopify and DHH and likely illegally took control of them.
They have backpedalled and said they will allow access back to the people that built and maintained these tools for a decade once they sign various agreements, but most have already fully quit or have stated they will not sign any agreement that comes handed down from Shopify/facists like DHH. On the plus side, some of them have been working on an alternative to rubygems, so there may be a community driven option for gems again soon.