the mayor is dumb as rocks the witness regularly forgets to look at stuff the deacon makes his own rules the crew have the object permanence of a tank full of goldfish and the polecats seem intent on wreaking as much chaos on the project as they can

this is peak entertainment i swear

All this shit makes me never want to use Ruby again.

Also, I find it helpful that the article I linked to makes the distinction between the RubyGems and Bundler repositories (which are community-run), and the rubygems.org platform which hosts an instance of the RubyGems repo, which is run by RC. Taking over the GH repos specifically IS a hostile move.

Specifically, the post by valeriecodes.bsky.social which stated "Just to be clear, Ruby Central has not taken money from DHH/Basecamp" is a deliberate attempt to mislead the Ruby community, in that DHH is a board member of Shopify, who seems to be pulling all the strings here.

Everything I've seen in the actions (or lack thereof) that have been taken by the board, and now in this behind the scenes description, indicate to me that the board is in way over their heads. Resign, and get some competent people to step up.

Not going to get too into the odd mention of some threat of funding being lost if they didn't do this (DHH, is that you?), but clearly this threat was made with a deadline attached to it, and this article flat-out states that the board hadn't acted yet with less than 24 hours to go.

No, it’s fine. That “no politics” stuff was near the start of DHH’s descent into publicly sharing more and more far-right wing beliefs. The most recent thing was this completely batshit racist post on his own blog: world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-rem...

I think what she’s trying to get at is that the recent hostile takeover of RubyGems by Ruby Central was not financially motivated in any way by Basecamp or DHH. I believe that’s probably the case. But she should have just said that.

So while it’s true that, based on publicly available evidence, Ruby Central has technically never cashed a check from Basecamp, their work was still at least funded by Basecamp’s dollars in the past. This makes saying “Ruby Central has not taken money from Basecamp” problematic, in my mind.

Ruby Central acquired Ruby Together in 2021. Ruby Together was another nonprofit that was responsible for maintaining RubyGems, bundler, etc. Ruby Together very publicly accepted donations from Basecamp for at least several years.

Even better if RC would issue a detailed statement containing an explanation and an apology for the atrocious way this has been handled so far. From my perspective, if that doesn't happen, I'll be looking to use and fund any RubyGems forks that pop up that aren't affiliated with RC.

If 1) I'm not missing anything, and 2) you weren't lying, and instead you were just uninformed, I think the community would really appreciate a retraction and apology for anything you stated that wasn't true.

"It is not a company, it is a non-profit formed (by the creators of Rubygems, no less)"

The issue of whether Ruby Central is a non-profit is not at all relevant to the question asked, so I don't understand this reply. But to confirm for anyone else reading, Ruby Central is a non-profit corporation.

Also, to be crystal clear, my original message said "and they’re lying, or at least grossly misrepresenting the truth." So I admitted straight away that I wasn't sure whether you were being intentional about it.

Don't assert that you know why I did something when you clearly don't. I am accusing you of lying because at least one of the things in the original message of yours still appears to be a lie that anyone looking at the public `rubygems` repo can verify for themselves.

So, "they also didn't need commit rights for the work they did" still appears to be a blatant falsehood, and the administrators of the `rubygems` repo clearly trusted this contributor enough to have such access for literally years.

What am I missing?

Okay, so I took a look at the 8 most recent commits in the graph you posted, and of those, half of them were merges of PRs.

This wasn't a new thing, either; the author has merge commits going all the way back to 2020.

Okay, so you expect a paid contractor to open PRs and have a full-time employee merge them? I’ve never worked anywhere that restricts contractors in this way in 25 years of software development.