[Exist-open] Exist DB Community Changes

[Duncan P. <dun...@gm...>]

In an abstract for his presentation at the upcoming Declarative Amsterdam
conference, Adam Retter announced his decision to fork eXist-db and launch
a competing project. This action is commonplace in open source. However, in
justifying his decision, Adam maligned the eXist community and project - in
a strikingly unprofessional manner.

On October 7 and 14, 2024 during the weekly Community Call, eXist-db’s core
developers and active community members discussed this matter and
unanimously concluded that we no longer have the necessary trust in Adam to
speak or act in the best interests of the eXist community. We have
therefore revoked his status as a core developer and his administrative
privileges from the eXist-db GitHub organization and related community
resources. We regret having to take these measures. But we believe that
they are vital to restoring the collegial and welcoming atmosphere that
marked the eXist-db community since its founding by Wolfgang Meier in 2001.
We thank Adam for all of his work on eXist-db and wish him well with his
new project.


== Signatories ==

Dannes Wessels,

Duncan Paterson,

Joseph Wicentowski,

Joern Turner,

Juri Leino,

Lars Windauer,

Magdalena Turska,

Olaf Schreck,

Patrick Reinhart,

Wolfgang Meier, (founder eXist-db)