"A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems. Martin Emde, one of the previous maintainers, said Ruby developers can immediately switch to the new server, although publishing gems is not yet possible. Gems (packages for Ruby) published to RubyGems.org are immediately available from gem.coop."
"The team includes Ellen Dash, whose post last month was the first to report on the maintainer crisis. Governance for the cooperative is a work in progress, which Emde said will be released later this week. Mike McQuaid, project lead of Homebrew, a Mac package manager written in Ruby, is assisting with this. McQuaid previously attempted to mediate (without success) between the maintainers and Ruby Central, the organization that hosts RubyGems and decided to remove external maintainers from the project."
"The creation of the Gem Cooperative follows an open letter calling for Rails, the popular application framework for Ruby, to be forked in order to free the project from its creator, David Heinemeier Hansson, because of what the letter claims are his "racist and transphobic views." Signatories to the open letter, called Plan Vert, include Tim Bray (co-author of the XML specification), Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse.org), and Eugen Rochko (creator of the Mastodon decentralized social network)."
Former maintainers removed without notice from RubyGems.org formed the Gem Cooperative and launched gem.coop, a RubyGems-compatible gem server. Developers can immediately switch to gem.coop for installing packages, though publishing new gems to the server is not yet supported. Gems published to RubyGems.org are immediately available from gem.coop. Governance for the cooperative remains a work in progress and will be released later this week, with Mike McQuaid of Homebrew assisting after an unsuccessful mediation attempt between maintainers and Ruby Central. The Gem Cooperative's creation follows an open letter called Plan Vert urging a Rails fork due to objections to David Heinemeier Hansson's views. Ruby Central cited security reasons for taking control of repositories.
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