James Smith 💾Sep 22, 2025
I doubt this will go anywhere, but...
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 22, 2025

#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!)

GitHub - Floppy/plan-vert-letter: An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence

An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Floppy/plan-vert-letter

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@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, 2025
@benjamineskola that may be true. No idea how practical it is, but we have to try!
Show threadsoaproot
@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.
Sep 23, 2025 at 3:55pmWeb
Show threadJames Smith 💾Sep 23, 2025

@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)