James Smith 💾Sep 22
I doubt this will go anywhere, but...
srjSep 22
Show threadJames Smith 💾

#Rails folks, here's an open letter asking the Rails Core to cut ties with DHH and hard fork Rails to a new project with proper governance.

You can sign with a pull request. Let's show that there's demand for this, and that the community won't appease racists.

https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter

(boosts and cross-posts to other places are appreciated!)

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Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 22
@MoskitoHero thanks for being the first signature! Much appreciated. ❤️
Show threadDanielSep 22
@Floppy I don't Rails on my own time but I'm going to bring it up at work tomorrow. We're a B corp, surely we should have an opinion on this stuff
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 22
@dan much appreciated! ❤️
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 23

Calling all #Ruby on #Rails users, I eagerly await your PR signatures on this open letter to the Rails Core team, in which we call for a hard fork and adoption of a proper Code of Conduct, away from #DHH.

https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter

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Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 23

We now have 10 signatories on https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter, calling on the Rails Core team to fork #Rails away from #DHH's influence.

Not nothing, but not nearly enough. Keep spreading it around!

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Show threadMark KirschsteinSep 23
@Floppy as a non-ruby/rails dev I feel my signature would be disingenuous to add, but you can have my signal boosts all day.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeSep 23
@markkirschstein @Floppy yeah, this too. (I'm a rare bird that writes in ruby but doesn't use rails.)
Show threadbenSep 23
@Floppy My understanding is that a significant portion of the core team are employed by Basecamp (or Shopify, who are no better), so I feel like any fork would have to be by someone outside the core team. I support that in principle but I don’t know how likely/practical it is.
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 23
@benjamineskola that may be true. No idea how practical it is, but we have to try!
Show threadsoaprootSep 23
@Floppy @benjamineskola I hope no one is operating under the illusion that this would be easy (heck, we couldn't even have a Rails conference with a different keynote speaker, apparently). But unless and until there's a different plan than this fork petition, I'm at least in the "not opposed" camp.
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 23

@soaproot @benjamineskola definitely not easy at all! But nothing worth fighting for is... ❤️

(btw, I'm entirely open to other plans that achieve the goal; maybe all this needs to do is kickstart the conversation)

Show threadLux Sep 27
@Floppy are pull requests from people that never used rails welcome?
Show threadAugier (fr & en) 🇵🇸🇺🇦☭🏴Sep 27
@Floppy Can someone hard-fork Stimulus and Turbo as well?