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...
I think it almost would be better if (hypothetically) there were an ethical breach, but they corrected it, spoke openly and were accountable. That would be much less alarming than a case where there was no breach, but they didn’t follow the process and were dismissive about concerns raised - that tells you what they will do when there really is a problem.
Yep, and what’s even worse here, is that the person raising concerns is now gone from the project. They not only showed that they’re atrocious at dealing with these things, they’re also going to be worse at it in the future.
Exactly.
I think it almost would be better if (hypothetically) there were an ethical breach, but they corrected it, spoke openly and were accountable. That would be much less alarming than a case where there was no breach, but they didn’t follow the process and were dismissive about concerns raised - that tells you what they will do when there really is a problem.
Yep, and what’s even worse here, is that the person raising concerns is now gone from the project. They not only showed that they’re atrocious at dealing with these things, they’re also going to be worse at it in the future.