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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

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104 points Qwuke | 1 comments | 21 Sep 25 19:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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sc68cal ◴[22 Sep 25 17:50 UTC] No.45336997[source]▶
This story is missing any context around what occurred. The only thing I was able to find was by searching, and I came to this PDF statement.

https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf

> On September 9th, with no warning or communication, a RubyGems maintainer unilaterally:

> renamed the “RubyGems” GitHub enterprise to “Ruby Central”,

> added non-maintainer Marty Haught of Ruby Central, and

> removed every other maintainer of the RubyGems project.

> On September 18th, with no explanation, Marty Haught revoked GitHub organization membership for all admins on the RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org maintainer teams

Which is important context that was left out of this board member's statement.

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jmcgough ◴[22 Sep 25 19:22 UTC] No.45338226[source]▶
I found this helpful in explaining what's happened: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/ruby_central_rubygems...

Sounds like they made some really big changes and put zero effort into communicating to people who've spent 10+ years working on the project.

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fwip ◴[22 Sep 25 19:57 UTC] No.45338668[source]▶
Thanks - that was helpful indeed. From there, I also found the linked post by Tekin Süleyman ( https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro... ) to be informative.
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rramon ◴[23 Sep 25 09:12 UTC] No.45344618[source]▶
Tekin, what makes a Turk less white than a Greek or Spaniard?

If it's cultural (religion, music/sports related subcultures and codes) then it's chosen. Nobody can force you into a subculture in the West. As soon as you turn 18 you can essentially do what you want, most likely even way before that.

You can chose your subculture, how you dress, style your hair, talk and are read by the mainstream society. Actual racists go by skin color and ignore your cultural choices, fuck them.

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____mr____ ◴[23 Sep 25 10:49 UTC] No.45345267[source]▶
Not really, racists often include ethnic features such as hair texture or even nose shape within their criteria for racial exclusion.

While in certain cultural contexts Turks may be read as white, within Europe there is a history of excluding them from whiteness and presenting them as a threat to European culture, mostly due to Islamophobia

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1. kgwgk ◴[23 Sep 25 12:36 UTC] No.45346165[source]▶
The last paragraph is funny because Turks themselves use the expression White Turks to refer to the modern/secular/Western (as opposed to the Black Turks, conservative/Islamist).