>>bradge+(OP)
> they had a problem with Ruby Central taking control of the RubyGems open source code repositories and gems, which Ruby Central never owned.
I don’t quite get how this happened? Ruby Central can’t just reach into my GitHub and declare they own something. Was it under the Ruby central account? Or an org account that decided they “own” the repo?
>>softwa+I8
That is explained in the "On 9 September, HSBT ..." paragraph, which describes how an existing RubyGems maintainer did - and then undid (most) - changes. A new user remained as an owner of the RubyGems GitHub organization - which allowed Ruby Central to do things later.