[$] The RubyGems.org takeover

In September, a group of long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging toolsprojects had their GitHub privileges revoked by nonprofit corporation Ruby Centralin what many people are calling ahostile takeover. Ruby Central and its board members have issuedseveral public statements that have, so far, failed to satisfy many inthe Ruby community. In response, some of the former contributors toRubyGems are working on an alternative service called gem.coop. On October17, ownershipof the RubyGems andBundlerrepositories was handed over to the Ruby core team, even though those projects had never been part of core Rubypreviously. The takeover and subsequent events have raised a number ofquestions in the Ruby community.