[xoops-anno] Resign from XOOPS Core Team Lead and Invite Founder Ono Kazu back to the project

[D. J. <ph...@us...>]

The return of XOOPS naturePosted by
phppp<http://xoops.org/userinfo.php?uid=16362>
 on 2011/8/13 12:49:46 (0 reads) | Posted on
XOOPS<http://xoops.org/modules/news/index.php?storytopic=1>
Dear XOOPSers,

It's time for the XOOPS Project to stop useless fights and return to its
nature of an open source project.

During the past years, we have all suffered from endless arguments and
quarrels and the project has been damaged too much.

The root of the fights has been the authoritativity and legality of the
project's management unit.

In 2003/2004, the Project Founder was forced out.
In 2006/2007, project manager and dev lead quit.
Now in 2011, the conflicts between project marketing coordinator and core
team lead have put the project on fire again.

In 2004/2005 a foundation was created by project manager and in 2009 another
foundation was created by marketing coordinator and the most big thing the
new foundation did was to spend money suing the previous foundation.

Both foundation claimed they would support and protect the project, but the
truth is that the only thing they did was to sue and defend on court, which
has proven that:
Neither of the foundations can protect the project, both of the foundation
creators put their personal will over the XOOPS Project.

Meanwhile, the project management unit, Project Council, which was supposed
to lead and manage the project, has failed. By early August 2011, two out of
the five council members became inactive, two of the remaining members keep
arguing with each other.

To stop the endless fights and arguments and let the project go back to its
right track, I talked to XOOPS Project Founder, Mr. Ono Kazu and suggested
him to return to the Project.

For the good of XOOPS Project, I am willing to take any responsibility and
punishment. Thus I did the following things by myself:
1 Both phppp and mamba quit from all management units, as well as mamba's
foundation
2 Give XOOPS server root access, sourceforge admin, xoops.org webmaster
access to onokazu
3 Add three XOOPS long term contributors to help maintain the project during
the transitional process: marco, long term QA; kris, the only active council
member; voltan, a loyal contributor with no interest in arguments.

I, phppp, as the Core Team Lead till 2011/08/13, am ready to be judged for
the sake of the XOOPS Project.

Welcome back Ono Kazu, long live XOOPS!


Sincerely,

Taiwen Jiang (a.k.a. phppp)
Resign from Core Team Leader on August 13th, 2011




Note:
Quote from madfish, one of most esteemed and loyal XOOPSers:
http://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=340190#forumpost340190


Mamba

I am absolutely disgusted to see that you have deleted phpp's resignation
post. I am also disgusted to see that you failed to mention:

* That he has invited the FOUNDER of XOOPS back to lead the project, ie.
Onokazu.
* That he has given server root access to Ono.
* That you personally have been dismissed from all positions.

You may not like these decisions, but who are you to delete a post by the
lead developer? Who the HELL do you think you are to hide the truth from the
community? In my opinion your behaviour is a blatant manipulation and an
affront to Open Source.

>> Here is phpp's original post in Googlecache<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fxoops.org%2Fmodules%2Fnews%2Farticle.php%3Fstoryid%3D6035>
.

Delete it and I'll just repost it until the community has seen it. Take
responsibility for your actions and stop trying to revise history.

PS: Before you start on about your foundation being the 'legitimate'
representative of the XOOPS project, I remind you that you took this issue
to court, and the court did not agree with you.