Rails developers fork away from Heinemeier Hansson
An open letter to the Rails Core team calls for a fork without Heinemeier Hansson. The appeal takes offence at the founder's political stance.
(Image: MediaPortal der Deutschen Bahn)
In an open letter, a group of Ruby on Rails developers calls for the creation of a fork of Rails that distances itself from founder David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH).
The appeal to the Rails Core team and the community proposes canceling the collaboration with Heinemeier Hansson, forking Rails with a new name, and establishing a modern Code of Conduct. The signatories accuse Heinemeier Hansson of private racist and transphobic views and refer in particular to two blog posts by him: “As I remember London” and “Gender and Sexuality Alliances in primary school at CIS?!”
The authors themselves recognize that the Rails group's plan is likely to prove difficult: “We recognize that this is a difficult process... However, we won't know unless we try.” The call goes by the name Plan vert after a French sabotage group from the Second World War that carried out attacks on railway facilities.
David Heinemeier Hansson has so far only responded directly to the open letter in an X-comment: “This is the same handful of hysterical individuals performing the same rites and rituals as they do every year.”
Videos by heise
In the days before, there had already been unrest in the Ruby on Rails community, as Ruby Central had pulled projects such as RubyGems without involving other maintainers and the community in these steps in advance.
(who)
