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 problem even with this version is that they are doing a bit of a two-step, saying the funds were not technically misused, but they don’t appear to be disputing that the request was handled in a way that didn’t comply with their own procedures. By way of illustration, it’s like if money goes mysteriously missing, but then shows back up in the right place. No technical harm done, but an alarming breakdown in procedure just the same. Maintaining an integrity of procedure and handling concerns in a way that shows you take them serious is critical to raising yourself above suspicion. If they don’t want to follow their own procedures, they should thank their treasurer for raising the issue, work with them to discuss a way to change the procedure, and then change the procedure to one that they won’t ignore.
You are quoting from one side of the story.
The problem even with this version is that they are doing a bit of a two-step, saying the funds were not technically misused, but they don’t appear to be disputing that the request was handled in a way that didn’t comply with their own procedures. By way of illustration, it’s like if money goes mysteriously missing, but then shows back up in the right place. No technical harm done, but an alarming breakdown in procedure just the same. Maintaining an integrity of procedure and handling concerns in a way that shows you take them serious is critical to raising yourself above suspicion. If they don’t want to follow their own procedures, they should thank their treasurer for raising the issue, work with them to discuss a way to change the procedure, and then change the procedure to one that they won’t ignore.