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Bundler's Lead Maintainer Asserts Trademark in Ongoing Struggle with Ruby Central

After the nonprofit Ruby Central removed all RubyGems' maintainers from its GitHub repository, André Arko — who helped build Bundler — wrote a new blog post on Thursday "detailing Bundler's relationship with Ruby Central," according to this update from The New Stack. "In the las...

The blog It's FOSS also has an update on Spinel, the new worker-owned collective founded by Arko, Samuel Giddins [who Giddins led RubyGems security efforts], and Kasper Timm Hansen (who served served on the Rails core team from 2016 to 2022 and was one of its top contributors): These guys aren't newcomers but some of the architects behind Ruby's foundational infrastructure. The Register had reported Thursday: Spinel's 'rv' project aims to supplant elements of RubyGems and Bundler with a more modular, version-aware manager. For example, Rafael FranÃa of Shopify commented that admins of the new project should not be trusted to avoid "sabotaging rubygems or bundler."

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