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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: 0.001s | 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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forgingahead ◴[23 Sep 25 07:55 UTC] No.45344076[source]▶
Tekin's conclusion: "it will send a clear message to the wider Ruby community (and those who may be considering joining it) that the majority does not stand with DHH and his toxic views."

He is going to be ultra surprised to learn what the majority thinks and how it's not what he thinks it is.

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em-bee ◴[23 Sep 25 12:06 UTC] No.45345812[source]▶
what does the majority think then according to you?
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1. schainks ◴[23 Sep 25 20:26 UTC] No.45352320{3}[source]▶
Additional context — DHH's latest blog post: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Using your personal brand to espouse the values of ethnonationalism fundamentally serves the capital class wishing to divide and exploit social order among those who labor. This is so rich, coming from the guy who literally created a tool that increases the value of labor.

So, if I had to guess, the smart, critical thinkers in the _global_ Ruby community might find this whole situation reeks.

If I were an immigrant to the UK and a Rails developer, and DHH is getting re-platformed while saying crazy stuff like this, I would think twice about my career choices going forward — Or, push the Ruby community not to stand with a garbage attitude like this, even if from a BDFL-type personality. I _invested_ my life into promoting the use of your tool, while you disparage me based on skin color and country of origin for the sake of some 'ye olde country' vibefest?

Does DHH even know where his principles lie?