shanecavThe hostile takeover of the RubyGems and Bundler code has been a long time coming. Corporate influence of major open-source Ruby projects has been growing for a while. This fiasco now makes the corporate control obvious. If you maintain a popular Ruby project and want to keep the F in FOSS, you should have had a democratic governance structure *yesterday*, one that is *explicitly* against corporate control of the project. You have to organize and fight to maintain independence. #ruby #rubygems
Steve Holden@shanecav Do the other language foundations have anything to say about this? You’d think they’d have opinions and valuable strategies, but I’ve see zip so far.
@holdenweb It's still early but sadly I assume they will stay out of this. The project leader at Homebrew, which has a solid governance structure, has spoken out against RubyCentral https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcquaid.com/post/3lz7klsyue22f
Mike McQuaid (@mikemcquaid.com)
Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take: - RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return
@shanecav good for them. The PSF has been a great disappointment to me.