A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

It's such a weird thought process to have gone through, to write this. The sentiments expressed are basically:

"I WANT to apologize ... that I feel awful."

"How can you possibly talk to someone about changing access, when multiple people tell you no, you are wrong?! A coup is the only way!"

"Because funding deadline, we executed a coup, which will keep everyone safe from hostile actors... Taking over accounts and access"

> Ruby Central has been responsible for RubyGems and Bundler for a long time. This isn't a new development, and I'm honestly very confused about the confusion.

That's the opposite claim from a coup. It's not fair for you to put those words in his mouth.

He is claiming that Ruby Central has the authority. True or not, that claim is not consistent with a coup. You seem to be catastrophizing and constructing misleading quotes, including inverting his words, not because his claim is not true but because of how he communicated it and the impact of it.