[haiku-development] Re: Banning Jorge

  • From: Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:43:17 +0100

Eguchi Satoshi wrote:
Dear all,

I'm Japanese Language Manager.

We launched another Japanese community named Haiku Japan this summer with Jorge
to intend to provide more active feedback to the Haiku community than
the other Japanese ones.
This is still very small, and he plays an important part in it.
In fact, we greatly progressed the Japanese translations with him this year.
So, is there the possibility that he continues his activities in our
Japanese community like
preparing for Open Source Conference and so on?
And would you keep him in the haiku-i18n-jp ML?

Anyway, we will follow the decision made here.


I want to say first that as a contributor you are part of the decision too.

I have absolutely no doubt that Jorge is a valuable contributor to the Japanese community, and this has been said and repeated over and over by many individuals over the time: He was and can be a great contributor when he wants to! The problem is the bad side of the story.. Everyone tried hard to maintain a peaceful relationship (there's written proof of that) but unfortunately the community can't trust him anymore and during the past year or so, he has kept attacking the project and its community on the web. I don't understand why he keeps contributing if at the same time he hates the individuals and disagree with the direction the project is taking?

So, concerning the community site, anyone is free to make and participate in a regional community site, even Jorge, the problem is that if the site controlled by him, i personally wouldn't trust him not using the site as a platform to continue to subtly attack the rest of the community, and thus create unnecessary friction between the Japanese community and the rest of the world. Anyone is free to work with who he likes, but i think you're taking an unnecessary risk in this case, personally and for the community in general. Ideally the main website would be fully multilanguage and anyone could help with translations, and there wouldn't even be the need for separate projects, but i digress :)

Concerning conferences, i have the same trust issue, how can he represent the project when he hates the contributors? Let alone why does he want to do it?

All this is my personal opinion of course...

Best regards,
Alex


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