Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy: A Developer's Account of the Bundler Dispute
I detail how Ruby Central lost control of major Ruby projects and conferences after a hostile takeover of Bundler and RubyGems. Despite losing most contributors and sponsors, they continue threatening legal action and reported me to the FBI. I explain the ongoing dispute, their failed settlement offers, and the conflict of interest within their new board while seeking a resolution for the community.
Ruby Central began what core team member Ellen Dash called a hostile takeover of the RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org open source projects, seizing control and locking out the team that had nurtured them for over a decade.
- reloty
> Unlike many community non-profits (including the Python Software Foundation), Ruby Central does not hold elections for their board of directors.
The PSF is a hellhole where everyone tries to cancel each other. People like David Mertz and Steve Holden [1] who supported other cancellations were cancelled themselves. And of course Tim Peters for opposing other cancellations.
You are only secure in the corporate inner circle, just like in Ruby. Even there Google got tired of the antics and fired Python core developers.
You use the PSF to gain influence and get a high salary with minimal work, inside and outside Python.
[1] The one-eyed snake (stuffed animal) "incident" PSF director.
- brightball
That’s a heck of a thing for somebody to go through. I’m sorry man.
- byroot
> lost 3 of 3 members of the Open Source Committee (Gabi, Mike, Ufuk)
This is rich given they left in big part because of how much abuse they have received by "supporters" of André & co...
- jameskilton
Did Arko ever explain why he was trying to sell access to Rubygem's web access logs?
- mijoharas
I thought Ruby Central were/had put this stuff behind them.
why are they still threatening to sue Andre Arko, and reporting him to the fbi?!
When I saw the postmortem or whatever it was called from schneems (and when I heard/saw he was involved and what he was doing) I really thought things were moving in the right direction.