André Arko publishes an account of the unresolved Ruby Central dispute over Bundler and RubyGems

Sources: André Arko, Ruby Central news, discussion
Summary: André Arko, a displaced long-term maintainer, published an account dated 2026-07-30 of the unresolved dispute with Ruby Central over control of Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org. Arko states that Bundler and the rubygems repository were transferred to Yukihiro Matsumoto, that no future conference dates are published, and that two of five board members are employed by two of the three named sponsors. Arko is an involved party in an unresolved legal dispute, so his characterisations are his own, and Ruby Central's news page carries no response to this post. That news page does independently carry the Alpha-Omega security grant, the 2026 bylaw rewrite, and Shopify joining the Ruby Alliance.
Why it matters: Bundler, RubyGems, and RubyGems.org are the package infrastructure for the whole Ruby ecosystem, and this is a first-person account from a displaced maintainer of who now controls them.
Follow-up: Track whether Ruby Central publishes a response and whether conference dates or a governance statement appear on its news page.