There have been personal conflicts abound in this drama around RubyGems, and that's a big part of the problem. The solution that I've come up with in my talks with the RubyGems maintainers is that anyone who feels that they can't work with Eric and Ryan (or vice versa) will be able to talk to Evan, who has less of a track record of difficult interactions with users.
No, that's not a great solution. But neither is supporting a fork by someone who's been working on this for three weeks when the current RubyGems core team has members on it with over 4 years of experience with the codebase. At the very least, this needs to stop being emotional and the technical points need to be laid out cleanly on white paper.
No, that's not a great solution. But neither is supporting a fork by someone who's been working on this for three weeks when the current RubyGems core team has members on it with over 4 years of experience with the codebase. At the very least, this needs to stop being emotional and the technical points need to be laid out cleanly on white paper.