Open Source Turmoil: RubyGems Maintainers Kicked Off GitHub

Jan Lehnardt said it best in a Mastodon post: “What the f*** is going on with Ruby?”

What’s going on is the RubyGems community is upset after maintainers were kicked off the GitHub repository late last week. RubyGems are packages of reusable Ruby code and other components, used to add functionality to a Ruby project. They are the standard package manager for the Ruby language.

Earlier this month, Ruby Central replaced all maintainers with its Director of Open Source Marty Haught. Ruby Central is a non-profit organization committed to…