The same people who created ruby central write the first versions of rubygems iirc (David Black , Chad Fowlernetc). But that was a long time ago and I'm not sure it matters to the current kerfuffle.
> and I'm not sure it matters to the current kerfuffle
I guess I find it a bit strange that it's so fuzzy who owned the GitHub repo.
So it was owned by a GitHub organization, and someone should have owned that organization no? Maybe the person that created it initially?
You can have more than one person with a role that allows to change ownership of repos owned by an organization, was that the situation here? Did multiple people had that permission and one of them re-owned the repo to themselves without any other knowing?
I say that because, I don't normally consider every code contributor to a repo, or even admin the owner of a repo.
If I create an open source lib, and then create a GitHub repo for it, and contributors come in, to help commit code, do PRs and even manage the repo, and later I decide to revoke everyone else's access, as the owner, like it's fine. Sure maybe some of the admins might wonder what's up, why I don't trust them administering the repo anymore, but it's my repo.
Here I'm struggling to identify whose repo is it? And was the repo owner kicked out of their own repo, so this is a takeover? Or did the owner just kick out others ?
now there's a name I haven't heard in a while! he was definitely one of the prominent people keeping the ruby mailing list fun and friendly back in the day; I miss that early ruby era where everyone was enthusiastic about how nice the language felt to use.
