GoKawiilRuby Central's Destructive Legacy
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 and RubyGems been resolved? 3) what has Ruby Central said about the dispute? and 4) what can Ruby developers do now?
What is Ruby Central doing now?
To talk about what Ruby Central is doing now, we need to start with a bit of historical context. What was Ruby Central doing before this saga began? About 18 months ago, Ruby Central:
ran 2 conferences every year, RubyConf and RailsConf
had an Open Source Committee with 3 members (Ufuk, Gabi, Mike)
funded 7 part-time community OSS contributors (André, Arun, Ellen, Gift, Irene, Josef, Martin)
funded 3 full-time OSS developers (Colby, Samuel, David)
coordinated those 10 OSS contributors across 3 major OSS projects: RubyGems Bundler RubyGems.org
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