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Parting of ways? Sure. In this case they are in charge of the package index but have removed most maintainers from their projects, implicitly taking charge ther

• zem 1y ago
  do they see themselves as more like debian, where the ruby gem and the open source project it packages are two separate things?
• yawaramin 1y ago
  How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar, how can Ruby Central remove me as the mantainer from there?
  • ilikepi 1y ago
    This thread has probably run its course, and newer postings[1] have more information, but I'll respond anyway if it's helpful... > How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar... The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks basically initiated the takeover. See [2] for a more detailed recounting. [1]: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390 - September 2025 (107+ comments) [2]: https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover
    • yawaramin 1y ago
      That's a dumb move though, isn't it? The original maintainers will now just move their projects somewhere else, and the 'official' projects have now effectively been killed. This is a suicidal move for the Ruby ecosystem.