After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know so far about the RubyGems takeover.

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.

@joeldrapper wow, thank you for pulling all of that info together. This gives a somewhat coherent picture.

I really wonder where the "rv as a threat" narrative comes from. This is all a bit ridiculous.

Unfortunately it is even less clear to me how we could resolve this without a full on community split that will help no one, not even Shopify and Rails Core.