[bigiain]

They were all spitballing ideas about how to recover from the DHH-driven dropping of corporate sponsorship dollars, and how too keep the support lights on.

I think an offer of covering all the 2nd level support costs in return for the right - that Ruby Central's own T&Cs grant - to monetise company usage stats, is a reasonable offer.

The "other side's" alternative was to steal ownership and control of a whole bunch of volunteer gem authors work at the behest of a different corporate sponsor who was clearly demonstrating they wanted to be able to not only throw their weight around and force policies and priorities on RubyGems/RubyCentral, but also to make it personal by explicitly calling for long term contributors to be removed entirely on a whim.

[ksec]

This is interesting, because I would have thought after all the information revealed, at least both sides could be blamed and usage stats is a no - no.

We all do see things very differently.

[prescriptivist]

This is such a strange take. Ruby Central, for better or worse, is the steward of Rubygems/Bundler. If Mike Perham wants to withdraw his funding because he thinks DHH is a white supremacist, then that's fine. But DHH didn't do that, Perham did.

Arko is not a completely innocent, non-self-interested character here. He has announced a project to end-run the existing rubygems, bundler, etc infrastructure before all this, in the name of "better tooling", but his tooling is solely owned by him and a handful of people that really, really don't like DHH. Controlling this aspect of the ruby toolchain ecosystem is in their own self-interest and overlaps with their deep disdain for the politics and corporate nature of the existing stewards of the ruby toolchain ecosystem. Maybe their approach and stewardship of this fork of the toolchain is more just, secure and equitable, but make no mistake -- they are fighting the same war that DHH and Shopify are, which is who controls the keys to the toolchain. Do you think if Arko, Perham, et. al. had control they would somehow be completely neutral, apolitical stewards of the ecosystem? No! They have made it clear with their money and machinations that they do not want to operate in the same ecosystem as DHH and their politics and ethics are intertwined with their relationship to the ruby community. They are no different than him.

Meanwhile those of us who just want stability are stuck between two factions who claim righteousness and ownership. I wish they all could be deposed and some more mature non-individual foundation could take over.

[phoronixrly]

I blame DHH for all of this. He needs to step up, walk his words back and mend the damage to the Ruby community he has done. Including chipping in with the funding he cost Rubygems.

[ljm]

Everyone is responsible for their own actions and DHH hasn't made anybody do anything. The reactions to his statements, whether you agree with what he said or not, are entirely voluntary.

What it does reveal is the fragility of a community that can seemingly be disrupted because of a single controversial blog post from a guy known to be controversial. This has counter-intuitively elevated DHH's position to that of a lynchpin, accentuating his importance as opposed to pressing him into obscurity.

I personally found DHH's take reprehensible and whatever respect I had for the man has all but vanished, but the Ruby community really does like to throw the baby out with the bathwater sometimes.

[psadauskas]

It wasn't DHH's latest awful blog post that made Mike Perham pull Sidekiq's support. It was because Ruby Central invited him back to the last Railsconf, after having kicked him out of Railsconf 2 years prior for his awful blog posts.

[ljm]

I stand corrected on that matter then. The most recent blog coincides with this quite conveniently.

[phoronixrly]

So, let me get this straight, you blame Sidekiq (and others!) for pulling their sponsorship, thus throwing the baby (rubygems.org) with the bath water (the reputational damage they'd get from being associated with Ruby Central and DHH)?

[ljm]

Notably I didn't use the word 'blame' but correctly assigned accountability to the people who made the decisions they did, for whatever reason they had. The parenthetical examples are yours alone, not mine.

Beyond that, yes...the Ruby community is dramatic and this is not the first time a furore has been made over some inter-community conflict with a bunch of reactionary stuff kicking off.

[dismalaf]

Shopify stepped up with funding. And the community is bringing out pitchforks whining about big tech...