Ruby Central: Update August 2024

Signed-off-by: Martin Emde <[email protected]>

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+# Update 2024-08
+
+## Organizations
+
+For various reasons across our team, August saw a slow down of progress that has delayed our expected release dates by about 1 month.
+Development is picking up again and we're looking forward to shipping the Organizations feature.
+
+### Maintainer Role
+
+* Colby implemented the maintainer role. Sam has code reviewed and we should have it ready to roll out soon.
+* Once ready, it will become available to everyone on rubygems.org, unlocking some level of control for owners on a gem-by-gem basis.
+* The maintainer role will allow us to reduce the impact of Organizations, easing some of the immediate demand by reducing the need for single gem organizations.
+
+### Organizations
+
+* Colby has taken over the Organization & Membership modeling, defining the ownership structure when an Organization owns a Rubygem.
+* Ian's designs are mostly complete, covering all the expected pages and the onboarding path for Organizations.
+
+### Next steps:
+
+* Merge and release maintainer role and respond to any feedback.
+* Implement the designs as new pages on rubygems.org.
+* Start adding test users once the permission system and organization pages are ready.
+
+## Audit
+
+The Audit is about 2/3rds done and going well.
+
+* Trail of Bits (Tob) is about 2 weeks into the audit as of the end of the month.
+* The onboarding went smoothly. ToB got to work quickly and has been communicating well.
+* A few concerns were brought to our attention immediately and fixes rolled out. So far, we've only seen minor things that have been easy to fix.
+* Infrastructure review is in progress.
+
+### Next steps:
+
+* One more week of review, then we will await the final report.
+* We will immediately implement fixes any problems that warrant immediate attention.