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To follow up here, it sure sounds like Andre is not entirely acting in good faith. https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-event-september-20
by directionless 11mo ago
To follow up here, it sure sounds like Andre is not entirely acting in good faith.
https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-event-september-2025/ https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-org-aws-root-access-ev... discusses that a precipitating event was Andre asking for a copy of the http access logs to monetize them.
I think this is confirmed by Mike Perham's comment in https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1o2bxol/comment/ninn6b4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1o2bxol/comment/ninn6...
> In this case I have first hand knowledge since he pitched me on the idea: would Sidekiq, being a big sponsor of Ruby Central in the past, be interested if rubygems could somehow use the remote IP to identify the companies downloading the sidekiq gem so I could use that to upsell those companies
- daniel_black 11mo ago^^^ THIS ^^^! This is not being highlighted enough.