A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeover" of the open source project.

RubyGems is the standard package manager for Ruby and is sponsored by Ruby Central, a nonprofit that runs events including RubyConf and the discontinued RailsConf, and sponsors critical tools. These tools include RubyGems and Bundler, the latter being a dependency manager that ensures the gems (ruby packages) required by an application are installed with the correct versions.

Davis posted [PDF] about a sequence of events beginning on September 9 when the RubyGems GitHub enterprise was renamed to Ruby Central, the company's director of open source Marty Haught added as maintainer of RubyGems, and every ot

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