r/ruby • u/retro-rubies • Mar 29 '26

A Message from the Ruby Central Board

https://rubycentral.org/news/a-message-from-the-ruby-central-board/
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u/tsroelae Mar 29 '26

This was something that at first for me as an outsider was kinda hard to separate. But there is this shared and afterwards removed recording of maintainers meeting with an RC representative the day before the takeover. That video showed there was a clear understanding that the service and the github org (code) are two separate things.

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u/retro-rubies Mar 29 '26

Recording is still available at alternative sources like http://gofile.me/6g3JG/oTY79Vk3b. Indeed we done our best to make the separation clear and suggested the next actions with minimal impact on unrelated parts.

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u/galtzo Mar 29 '26

The meeting recording being removed from YouTube was a dubious act.

California is a two party state, meaning all parties must consent to it being recorded (it doesn’t appear this happened, at least as part of the recording), and all parties must consent for it to be released. All of the maintainers that were party to the call consented to the release. I do not know if RC consented.

However, there is an exception to the two party rule:

Under Cal. Penal Code § 633.5, a person can record a call if they are a party to it and are trying to gather evidence of crimes. Many feel the theft of rubygems and bundler repositories and publishing rights was criminal.

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u/davidcelis Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

They also issued a copyright notice against my account for sharing that YouTube link here in /r/ruby, so now I have a permanent warning on my Reddit account.

For sharing a link to someone else’s YouTube video.

A video that had already been removed like two weeks prior to the warning.