A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

I’m the Homebrew Project leader and care a lot about Ruby so met with both sides to attempt to mediate and posted two threads on Bluesky about what went down:

https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcquaid.com/post/3lz7klsyue22f

https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcquaid.com/post/3lzfxctubbk2y

TL;DR: Regardless of what you think of RubyCentral’s actions, it’s very clear they absolutely screwed up the execution and communication here. In general the transparency is far below what you’d expect from an open source organisation.