At the same time, why didn't RC call him to ask? Was it easier to write about a security INCIDENT throwing shade at Arko?
With that said, let's keep focused on the real issue: RC did a hostile takeover of the projects. That's not been properly disputed so far. Matz is, therefore, accepting to steward stolen projects.
> Matz is, therefore, accepting to steward stolen projects.
You know Arko didn't even start working on Rubygems until it was nearly 10 years old, right?
One of the original authors is in here and on X saying he supports it being taken over by RubyCore. Which matters much more than whatever the maintainers who were locked out think.
https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci...
"Please confirm that you cannot access the Ruby Central AWS root account credentials, either through the console or by access keys."
Alternatively, we could see the whole issue for what it is: a power struggle between political factions of an open source project that is unprofessionally handled by at least one side.
Arko already stated that he didn't know he had been fired. Geez.
> You know Arko didn't even start working on Rubygems until it was nearly 10 years old, right?
The project was stolen from a set of maintainers, not just Arko. Let's stick to the facts: someone with admin rights over the repos revoked the access of other admins without their consent. What do you call this?
> One of the original authors is in here and on X saying he supports it being taken over by RubyCore. Which matters much more than whatever the maintainers who were locked out think.
How in the world is that relevant? I have a lot of respect for Rich, but he wasn't a maintainer.
