Post-recording update: As I've been lobbying for (both publicly and behind the scenes), it has been announced that the RubyGems and Bundler client libraries are being transferred to Matz and the Ruby core team (https://rubycentral.org/news/ruby-central-statement-on-rubygems-bundler/). Mike McQuaid (https://mikemcquaid.com) (of Homebrew (https://brew.sh) fame) and I scheduled this episode of Hot Fix a week before the Ruby community exploded (https://justin.searls.co/posts/why-im-not-rushing-to-take-sides-in-the-rubygems-fiasco/). Hot Fix (https://justin.searls.co/posts/whats-the-hot-fix/) is all about turning up the heat, but even we were a little wary of the heat in that particular kitchen. The problem Mike brought to the table is the same one he's always on about: open source is not a career. Incidentally, Mike's favorite topic also happens to be relevant to the latest RubyGems controversy—because it all boils down to paying people to work on open source. Not content to miss out on the fun, Jerod (https://changelog.com/person/jerodsanto) from The Changelog (https://changelog.com/) asked if he could join and discuss the ongoing Ruby drama as a group. So we decided to team up and do a collab episode—call it Breaking Changelog , I guess? It's nothing if not efficient: record once, edit twice, and syndicate everywhere. If you don't mind swear words, listen to this version. If you don't like swearing, what the fuck are you doing here? Please send your compliments to [email protected] and your complaints to [email protected].

Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.