https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent. News of the takeover was first broken by Ellen on 19 September.
I have spoken to about a dozen people directly involved in the events, and seen a recording of a key meeting between Ruby Gems maintainers and Ruby Central, to uncover what went on.
https://narrativ.es/@janl/115258495596221725
Okay so this was a hostile takeover. The Ruby community needs to get their house in order.
And one more note, I assume it is implied in the write up, but you might now know: DHH is on the board of directors of Shopify. He exerts tremendous organisational and financial power.
It's hilarious he's threatened by three devs with a hobby project and is willing to burn his community's reputation over it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday October 01, @12:05PM (1 child)
Its propaganda. Look how carefully they censored that it was an attack on DHH for political reasons. Its the usual people calling the usual names for the usual reasons. Disgusting.
Note that if you don't own the means of production and you release under a FOSS license, a fork is not a "takeover".
I'm totally unimpressed by the coverup and attempt at redefining the narrative.
I would say that "dumb political arguments by extremists" is a strong indicator of a dying organization. Ruby and RoR was cool... like a decade or two ago. Not so much anymore. Thats why the members have changed from a "create software organization" to a "fight the nazis organization", where nazi is simply defined as anyone who doesn't agree with the speaker.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by tom2tec on Wednesday October 01, @12:56PM
or this is the rich and the powerful taking without contributing back in any meaningful way.
Words to men as air to birds.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by CaptNemo on Wednesday October 01, @05:06PM
So basically: the host mis-behaved, the maintainers got butt hurt, and the code’s still theirs. Big load of nothing.
THIS is why you don't rely on other people's servers.