When you left RubyGems and Bundler (let's call them "Projects") team, you handed over your authority to whoever was left and/or was added later. It doesn't matter in which order things happened. What matters is that Ruby Central _and the rest of the team_ were the stewards of Projects. The important part here being _and the rest of the team_. André had every right to keep being part of that team, and he was for a long time, together with many other team members, all of which were removed by "a representative from Ruby Central". What an inhuman way to remove someone from a Project. "Hire" someone to do the dirty job for you so you don't have to. The decisions in a team should be done by reaching a team consensus. Not by one actor. I believe it's for the better that André was removed from the team, but it shouldn't have been done like this. Ruby Central lost their trust in the eyes of many. They could've achieved the same goal in a much better way. How can I trust an organization with management of something if they failed to manage this whole situation? Claiming this is all in the name of security and then not even knowing how to properly remove access from someone. So much about security...
It may be best in the future direction to have Ruby Central's role on RubyGems and bundler completely eliminated and simply just hand them over to Ruby Core and Ruby Foundation in Japan. I will gladly donate just to avoid any more US politics and drama.
What was your maintainership status when this all kicked off? Were you one of the owners removed by HSBT?
Joel Drapper is fibbing & playing memory games in a weird attempt to exert ownership over the community. It’s good to hear someone credible set the record straight.