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)

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