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From: Duncan P. <dun...@gm...> - 2024-10-30 15:29:32
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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) |