It's really pretty clear to me at this point that there's no point in expecting current Ruby Central leadership to address the harms to date. At every turn they could have done something meaningful to get the train back on the track, and instead they engaged in more corporate-speak word salad that sounds like what non-technical people say whey they're trying to convert an email some hapless programmer sent them into legalese for a C-suite.

Time for new leadership.

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And here's perhaps the weirdest thing about this Q&A update…it feels completely disconnected from the transfer of the repos to Ruby Core's ownership. Like, maybe you’d take out a couple of sentences, and if that transfer had never happened, this document could remain identical.

My guess? A lot of this was written before that transfer even happened. So that's why almost nothing here addresses the transfer. How does Ruby Core fit into the past month's events? Beats me!

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“On the client tools side, while the repos could have been forked, as long as individuals could publish the gems from any source they want, no forked repository could have been the canonical and secure source of the tools.”

I have no idea what this word salad means. I really have no idea.

And this goes for a lot of the technical details. I don't understand what they're saying. Either I'm very stupid (it's possible), or they continue to obfuscate.

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“The Board acted independently in their decision based on the internal timeline that was set; there was no sponsor-imposed funding deadline. Ruby Central maintains standard sponsorship agreements that do not grant operational control…sponsors were only briefed as part of normal communication and were not involved in any decisions or deadlines. ”

I don't believe this. I simply flat-out don't believe this. It flies in the face of all outside reporting to date.

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“Discussions about transferring the RubyGems and Bundler repositories under the Ruby Core team have been ongoing for several years.”

Oh really? This is the first I've heard of it. And believe me, I read just about every hot take and loose thread of debate in the past month across multiple Discords and social media. Nobody mentioned “the likely outcome here based on past conversations is Matz steps in and Ruby Core takes over”. That announcement felt out of the blue.

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I just keep thinking of all the ghouls who dog-piled on André. 🙄

I'll post more thoughts tomorrow, but once again it is becoming clear to me that *Ruby Central has embarrassed itself so thoroughly* at this point I can't imagine this organization lasting for much longer. It is farcical.

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Also shoutout to @[email protected] for yet another DHH takedown. A lot of folks have been focusing on DHH’s latest article about the far-right marches in London, but I'm still steamed from his absolutely bonkers alignment with Trumpism & Elonism back in 2024.

I'm sorry, but when you cozy up to anti-democratic criminals, you have lost *all* credibility and there's no more good faith dialogue to be had.

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

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