> they had a problem with Ruby Central taking control of the RubyGems open source code repositories and gems, which Ruby Central never owned.

I don’t quite get how this happened? Ruby Central can’t just reach into my GitHub and declare they own something. Was it under the Ruby central account? Or an org account that decided they “own” the repo?

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joeldrapper 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I said in the post that HSBT who was a maintainer invited Marty as an owner of the GitHub account. This was against the wishes of the other maintainers who had established practices for adding new maintainers.

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didibus 7 hours ago | parent [-]

So HSBT was the owner? And transfered ownership?

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joeldrapper 7 hours ago | parent [-]

HSBT was a maintainer who had "owner" permissions on GitHub.

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evolve2k 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It would seem that HSBT being a maintainer owner AND shopify employee faced a significant conflict of interest. Also I don’t think it’s a stretch given the context and clear direction coming from shopify for the actions of others to assume that HSBT themselves were directed by their employer to add Marty as an owner.

I sense there’s legal grounds here but can’t fully articulate what the legal case would be.

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byroot 3 hours ago | parent [-]

hsbt (no caps) isn’t a Shopify employee.

He’s one of the most active Japanese Ruby core committer, employed by ANPAD, and also part time contractor for Ruby Central, and one of the most active committers to rubygems/bundler.

	▲	makeitdouble 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		BTW, ANPAD inc is a construction company, the site is in japanese but the opening movie alone gives a good idea of the context they operate in: https://andpad.co.jp/ It's funny how far removed it is to all of this drama.

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janpio 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is explained in the "On 9 September, HSBT ..." paragraph, which describes how an existing RubyGems maintainer did - and then undid (most) - changes. A new user remained as an owner of the RubyGems GitHub organization - which allowed Ruby Central to do things later.

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doctorpangloss 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It sounds like RubyGems was renamed to Ruby Central.

	▲	TechIsCool 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At the GitHub Enterprise level, you can see that reflected if you look at any of the users profiles https://github.com/mghaught