[lgleason]

Reading the tea leaves, I think this incident may have more to do with politics than it being a real incident per se.

For the past 10 years the Ruby community had been co-opted by political activists. Things like COC's and the Contributor Covenant etc. started in the Ruby community. The activists went after many top contributors in the community because of personal political beliefs etc, instead of behavior in the community itself. Some even called for ejecting DHH, the creator of rails, and Matz, the creator of the language, from the community.

When the Overton window finally stopped shifting to the left and started to move right, a lot of people who had remained quiet due to real threats of loss of business, work etc. finally started to speak up. DHH was one of them and has been very outspoken with his beliefs that open source software should be a-political and open to all instead of the political purity tests the activists were pushing.

From what I observed, when I was in involved in the Ruby community, Arko appeared to be a political activist. While there may have been an actual security concern here, my guess is that this had more to do with a desire to not have someone who may have been involved in trying to eject the top creators in the community being a point of failure for key infrastructure for the Ruby ecosystem.

[noelwelsh]

Politics is unavoidable when groups of people get together, as politics is defined as how groups make decisions [1].

Therefore, "open source software should be a-political and open to all" is by definition both impossible (you cannot have a group without politics) and a political statement (as it is suggesting a decision making process.) Furthermore, don't mistake a conservative position (e.g. everything should stay the same) for an apolitical one.

[1]: For example:

> politics: “who gets what, where, when, and how”—the process for resolving disputes and allocating scarce resources"

https://openstax.org/books/introduction-political-science/pa...

[skywhopper]

Open source “should be open to all” is extremely political. DHH himself regularly posts rants making it clear he doesn’t agree with this. Railing against codes of conduct that are meant to making open source more welcoming to folks who have historically been excluded is itself a political statement that “not everyone is welcome”.

[jjgreen]

Cheerleading the fascist "Tommy Robinson" is not apolitical

[watwut]

DHH is political activist, hardcore radical one. Always was. It is completely absurd how radical right wing gets labeled "apolitical" in these takes.

[grim_io]

woah, got any references to back this up?

I've seen a lot of DHH content, and I'd never describe it as radical right wing.