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> This gem is almost a decade old

Hm, the first commit to the gem was in 2017. The gem was not "advertised" so that the interfaces can be polished and done right.

Async gem is hugely improved with Ruby 3.0 release (from December 2020) when Ruby language added "fiber scheduler" feature just to integrate better with Async gem.

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The gem namespace was transferred to me some time around 2017.

Rubygems.org has the first commit at 2013. Unless the gem changed ownership.

> the gem changed ownership

I think the gem did change ownership at some point. The first couple gem releases from 2013 were yanked.

Different author credited but the same owner the whole time. So might be different. The library that async is based on is the same owner as well.

Edit - the owner in 2013 is the same as the owner of the current gem and main contributor on Github. So yes it seems like it's been around since 2013.

How do you look up who the gem owner was at a point in past time?

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