To my knowledge: Sidekiq is the lead project of Contributed Systems LLC. Ruby Central also announced to end the "RailsConf" series after this year.

I fully understand and support to be angry about and cut all ties to the 3-letter-guy, but I think this Ruby Central/Rubygems issue is a case of "friendly fire".

It's widely known - there are podcasts focusing on this - that Contributed Systems LLC is a one-man show.