Fellow manjaro users, As you may have heard, our long time contributor and friend Jonathon is no longer part of the Manjaro team. He has been a great asset to the team and over the seven years has done much for packaging, communication with the Arch team and especially for this community. He will be missed. The inciting incident for the conflict eventually leading to this was a hardware purchase for one of the team members, but the disagreement was not caused because the purchase was inappropr...
The initiative for this came from him, but the way it was enacted left him feeling kicked out, which led him to publicly announce his side of the story while the events were still unfolding.
And then later:
Because of his methods of highlighting his views, his position within the team became untenable.
He felt that a process was not handled appropriately, and the team decided that he was no longer one of them.
I am grateful that Jonathan went to the community to allow these events to get public scrutiny they deserved. That clearly was not going to happen if it was up to the Manjaro team, which hid the thread, stripped his mod privileges, and even now are saying that he shouldn’t have said anything.
I feel like the caption of this post is rather sensational. It doesn’t actually say Jonathon (correct spelling here) was fired at all:
Okay, but the very next sentence says:
And then later:
He felt that a process was not handled appropriately, and the team decided that he was no longer one of them.
I am grateful that Jonathan went to the community to allow these events to get public scrutiny they deserved. That clearly was not going to happen if it was up to the Manjaro team, which hid the thread, stripped his mod privileges, and even now are saying that he shouldn’t have said anything.