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Ruby Central sponsors him to work on the project. They also own the project. Sure it’s not ideal that they’ve apparently come to an impasse of some sort but locking him out is not bonkers.

>>padjo+(OP)
It sure fucking is bonkers.

Ruby Central as an organization touts that it is responsible for RubyGems. Assuming this narrative is accurate, they needed to get agreements in place with contributors to appease some funding partners.

This shit happens. Especially as an open-source project started by one dude in 2009 turns into critical infrastructure managed by a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

That they failed so fucking spectacularly speaks incredibly poorly of their board.

>>padjo+(OP)
> They also own the project

I've seen some contention around that. RC owns the rubygems infrastructure. But it's not clear that they should own the repos of the open source rubygems or bundler projects that they use. They just seem to have fallen to that organization by way of some admin owner passing through, rather than an official hand off.