Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
A critique of Ruby Central's recent governance and management of open-source projects like RubyGems and Bundler. The author alleges a hostile takeover and questions the organization's lack of democratic processes and transparency.
Why it matters
This highlights the governance challenges and power struggles inherent in managing critical open-source infrastructure.
At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I've been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler and RubyGems been resolved? 3) what has Ruby Central said about the dispute? and 4) what can Ruby developers do now?
To talk about what Ruby Central is doing now, we need to start with a bit of historical context. What was Ruby Central doing before this saga began? About 18 months ago, Ruby Central:
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