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This thread has probably run its course, and newer postings[1] have more information, but I'll respond anyway if it's helpful...

> How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar...

The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks basically initiated the takeover. See [2] for a more detailed recounting.

[1]: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover - >>45348390 - September 2025 (107+ comments)

[2]: https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover

>>ilikep+(OP)
That's a dumb move though, isn't it? The original maintainers will now just move their projects somewhere else, and the 'official' projects have now effectively been killed. This is a suicidal move for the Ruby ecosystem.