ALT: a man in a black suit says do it in white letters

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

Can you imagine what #ruby would look like if code of conduct violations were actually enforced? Especially against our white supremacists? Refreshing to be reminded that world could exist if we wanted it. Good for the PSF and its moderators for maintaining a healthy community. 👏🏽 https://social.jacobian.org/@jacob/115215001618713506

The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH. Since...

Ruby Community, At the heart of Ruby Central’s mission is our responsibility to steward the open source tools that power the Ruby ecosystem. That commitment is only as strong as the people and proces...

As chronicled by my teammate Ellen, the RubyGems team is no more. I wish the best of luck to everyone taking on the herculean task of keeping package management functional and working for the entire R...