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[Doc] Acknowledge Shopify in the initial release#219

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[Doc] Acknowledge Shopify in the initial release#219
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@koic koic commented Jan 25, 2026

Motivation and Context

The repository's "About" section currently states, "The official Ruby SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Maintained in collaboration with Shopify." However, now that MCP governance has been established, maintenance is handled by the MCP steering group.

Given this, it seems more accurate to remove the maintenance wording from the "About" section. That said, I think it would be good to preserve acknowledgment of Shopify, which originally developed and released the Ruby SDK.

There may be a more appropriate place for this, but at the very least, it could be recorded in the changelog as part of the project's history.

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The repository's "About" section currently states,
"The official Ruby SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Maintained in collaboration with Shopify."
However, now that MCP governance has been established, maintenance is handled by the MCP steering group.

Given this, it seems more accurate to remove the maintenance wording from the "About" section.
That said, I think it would be good to preserve acknowledgment of Shopify, which originally developed and released the Ruby SDK.

There may be a more appropriate place for this, but at the very least, it could be recorded in the changelog as part of the project's history.
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koic commented Jan 25, 2026

Additionally, this may be a good time to update the ownership on RubyGems.
https://rubygems.org/gems/mcp

At the moment, among the Ruby SDK development team, the gem is owned only by @topherbullock. It may be worth considering adding @atesgoral, @jonathanhefner, and me (@koic) as owners as well.

This would help ensure that issues can be addressed promptly if they arise. From a governance perspective, it would likely be best to keep modelcontextprotocol as the only organization account and grant access to individuals as needed.

@topherbullock, would it be possible to move forward with this? If preferred, this can also be handled on my side.
Could my account (It uses the email on https://rubygems.org/profiles/koic_ito), be added as an owner of the mcp gem?

@koic koic merged commit 34b7c68 into modelcontextprotocol:main Feb 17, 2026
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koic commented Feb 17, 2026

@topherbullock When you have a chance, it would be appreciated if you could take a look at the comment above regarding gem release permissions.

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