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Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

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659 points jolux | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 08:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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morpheuskafka ◴[19 Sep 25 17:33 UTC] No.45304287[source]▶
For those like me who are not Ruby users/devs, it might be good to explain who exactly Ruby Central is? I assumed they were analogous to Python Soft Foundation or Linux Foundation etc. as the entity of maintainers/owners/whatever of Ruby.

But it seems that they have nothing to do with the ruby-lang.org site where the Ruby binaries itself are distributed. Instead, their own site appears to primarily list them as responsible for organizing an annual conference?

And who owned the RubyGems infrastructure before this takeover? The website (and domain that the client actually calls to get the gems, presumably) seem to have already been part of Ruby Central, so what exactly changed here ownership wise, beyond just kicking the maintainers?

(unrelated -- seeing a mention of DHH here reminded me that I haven't seen anything of the Matt/WP drama in a long time on HN -- time to go Google whatever the resolution of that was)

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1. nomdep ◴[19 Sep 25 20:30 UTC] No.45306177[source]▶
Until a few years ago, RubyCentral was very similar to the Python Software Foundation in that it managed all the infrastructure and the main conferences - everything except language development.

A few years ago, RubyCentral lost power when the Rails Foundation was created (most of the Ruby world revolves around Rails). The Rails Foundation organizes its own yearly conference, and RubyCentral stopped hosting theirs.

However, RubyCentral still controls the package management tools and the package registry.