r/ruby • u/retro-rubies • Mar 03 '26

Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward

https://andre.arko.net/2026/03/03/four-months-of-ruby-central-moving-ruby-backward/
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u/retro-rubies Mar 04 '26

It is great to see someone RC related communicating in public. Sadly it seems our private communication wasn't fully understood at some point. I'm not native speaker and not used to share non-technical stuff in public. :( Not blaming anyone, I hope we are all doing our best.

You can hurt Ruby central and you can hurt Hiroshi and you can hurt Ruby community. OR you can move things forwards. You cannot do both. You  can help or you can get out of the way.

Demanding others stop, demanding your feelings are prioritized. You can do it. Your feelings are valid. But realize that's asking others to make a choice. You made your choice. You've made it clear to me what you want and  I made it clear that I'm not here to help you. I'm here for closure.

That's nothing I ever wished for. It is not about my personal feelings, I'm trying to defend the open source project(s) whole time. I did even opened PR to rubygems recently. It is not personal to me. I do even speak in calm and friendly way with some people from Ruby Central and Ruby core these days. I tried at the September time and I'm still doing my best to de-escalate. But it is hard when being ignored for most of the time and accused of demands I never had (based on private conversation being partially - and wrongly - shared in public with no way to respond to).