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They did not WRITE RubyGems, they inherited it and evolved it. Chad, David, Jim (RIP), Paul and I wrote RubyGems. I hosted RubyGems from my home in Virginia for several years before we could cover the cost of colocation and stood up RubyForge. Its nice to look at the near history and think that this is all of history but it is not. Ruby Central has always been the stewards of RubyGems and then later, Bundler.
Mystery-Machine
First of all, thank you! It's unbelievable that you built the first version of `gem install` in a single night. It must have been an amazing feeling. I remember the drive when I was doing some hackathon with a few friends. It's the best feeling a software engineer can have.

When you left RubyGems and Bundler (let's call them "Projects") team, you handed over your authority to whoever was left and/or was added later. It doesn't matter in which order things happened. What matters is that Ruby Central _and the rest of the team_ were the stewards of Projects. The important part here being _and the rest of the team_. André had every right to keep being part of that team, and he was for a long time, together with many other team members, all of which were removed by "a representative from Ruby Central". What an inhuman way to remove someone from a Project. "Hire" someone to do the dirty job for you so you don't have to. The decisions in a team should be done by reaching a team consensus. Not by one actor. I believe it's for the better that André was removed from the team, but it shouldn't have been done like this. Ruby Central lost their trust in the eyes of many. They could've achieved the same goal in a much better way. How can I trust an organization with management of something if they failed to manage this whole situation? Claiming this is all in the name of security and then not even knowing how to properly remove access from someone. So much about security...

rich_kilmer OP
I totally understand and agree that it was handled very poorly.
ksec
Thank You, not only for RubyGems and hosting it, but for replying all the accusation and comments that to me are simply bending truth. Such as they wrote RubyGems and somehow Bundler belongs to them. And despite you correcting them multiple times, they still continue with the same narrative.

It may be best in the future direction to have Ruby Central's role on RubyGems and bundler completely eliminated and simply just hand them over to Ruby Core and Ruby Foundation in Japan. I will gladly donate just to avoid any more US politics and drama.

buffington
Get this: I've used what you guys built back then almost every day for the past 20 years. (also, long time no see - we should catch up).
tommica
You guys did an amazing job!
joeldrapper
I’m not talking about who wrote the code. Hundreds of people wrote the code, that’s not particularly relevant. I’m talking about who had maintainership of the code and how those maintainers had agreed to govern the project.

What was your maintainership status when this all kicked off? Were you one of the owners removed by HSBT?

raggi
i can confirm the above. sadly felt a confirmation might actually be helpful because there's some wild stuff around the threads today.

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