The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to RC's continued relationship with DHH

[getajobmike@ruby.social]

The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to RC's continued relationship with DHH.

Since most of the team has walked away, RC has decided to accept a sponsorship guarantee from DHH so they can hire a new team and this is the PR spin of that decision.

I don't see how Ruby Central can be trusted anymore until its Board is publicly elected.
https://ruby.social/@rubycentral/115231365858771329

[jsm@hachyderm.io]

@getajobmike I’m out of the loop. Is DHH bad now? Last I heard, people were really digging his new Linux distro.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@jsm He is, openly, a white suprematist (see his blog posts).

[rey@toot.cat]

@jsm @getajobmike

here is the gentleman being racist: https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

here's the guy defending the honor of a dead Nazi: https://world.hey.com/dhh/words-are-not-violence-c751f14f

here's DHH being a nationalist and a racist: https://world.hey.com/dhh/national-pride-f7aa1e92

here he is going all "2020s woke ideals are out, celebrating good genes is in": https://world.hey.com/dhh/you-expect-principles-but-should-wish-for-none-531988ec

and that's about where I stopped scrolling back through his blog because I've hit my LD50 for this stuff

NOTE: @davidcelis has summed up the DHH problem much more better than I have above: https://davidcel.is/articles/rails-needs-new-governance