“Ruby Central has resolved nothing. Don’t let their delaying tactics convince you otherwise. The Ruby community cannot trust Ruby Central with control over our gems until there is accountability for destroying the very governance they were supposed to be providing.”
https://andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/four-months-of-ruby-central-moving-ruby-backward/
Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward
From the moment RubyGems was first created in 2004, Ruby Central provided governance without claiming ownership, to support the Ruby community. Providing governance meant creating processes to provide stability and predictability. Avoiding ownership meant allowing the community to contribute, to the point where unpaid volunteers created and controlled the entirety of RubyGems.org for many years. Last year, Ruby Central flipped that successful formula on its head. They now claim ownership of both Bundler and RubyGems, but refuse to provide governance. Ruby Central now claims sole control over all code and decisions, despite paying for only a few percent of the work required to create and sustain the projects across 22 years. Instead of providing stable and predictable processes, Ruby Central suddenly hijacked the Bundler and RubyGems codebases away from the existing maintainers, shut out the community, and started issuing the threats to sue.
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