At conferences and meetups, and in conversations online, many Ruby developers have asked me about Ruby Central and my disagreement with them. This post is my attempt to answer the questions I’ve been getting over and over, covering: 1) what is Ruby Central doing now? 2) has the dispute over Bundler…

I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak...

Last week, three members of Ruby Central’s board published a new statement about RubyGems and Bundler, and this week they published an incident report on the events last year. The first statement reports that Ruby Central has now completed a third audit of RubyGems.org’s infrastructure: first by th…

Trying Linux Desktop Yet Again with More Success

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...

The Death of the Software Craftsman

YouTube video by Benn Jordan