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by byroot 279 days ago
> What we've witnessed over the past week

Who is "we"? And what did they witness?

All we got right now is one side of the story.

It is indeed surprising such change wouldn't be immediately followed by a public announcement, but they've been founding and managing RubyGems for a very long time now, so it's not even clear to me how this can be a "takeover".

I'll happily join with my pitchfork if it turns out this is indeed a malevolent move, but until I've read their side of the story, I'd rather wait and see.

Edit: 35 minutes later, here we go: https://rubycentral.org/news/strengthening-the-stewardship-o...
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tremon 279 days ago
All we got right now is one side of the story

That's because Ruby Central chooses not to communicate. I'm not going to reserve judgment against intentionally mute hostile actors.

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byroot 279 days ago
Organizations are necessarily slower to communicate than individuals, give them a couple days. People need to chill out before jumping to conclusions like that.
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adgjlsfhk1 279 days ago
Organizations should not do things like this without having their communication done in advance. They new what they were going to do, so they should have the blog post explaining exactly what and why they were doing to release (at the latest) at the same time.
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mrbombastic 279 days ago
What why? An organization is made up of individuals who had a heads up because they had a bunch of meetings and made the decision to do this, if anything they had a head start on communication. Their silence is their choice.
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milliams 279 days ago
Based on the OP, the initial changes were made 10 days ago - more than enough time to communicate something publicly.
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x0x0 279 days ago
They couldn't email longtime contributors with a heads up, here's whats happening before revoking commit rights and making changes like this? That's nonsense.
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bradly 279 days ago
> All we got right now is one side of the story

Well, we have all of Ruby Centrals actions including their action to not be more public during these actions. Their actions are their story. If their actions don't communicate their intent, that is on them to handle that in a professional way to not be in this situation.

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