Hello, I am the founder of the google open source project "wiiflow" and my task there has been to recruit members, be a link between teams as members left and others joined and provide guidance to the project.
Since quite some time we had a team of two developers who wrote the most additions to the project. One of them, being active for over a year, was the last one to receive the ownership status. Most recently, he was gone for a period of 5 months and the project had been in a semi-broken state for a while before that. Since the lead developer was also inactive, the project stalled. A regular member of our IRC channel joined together with a returning member of the project and other members of our IRC channel and they resumed work together. They recently committed their work and we were ready to release a stable version after the team of testers approved it. At this point, the most recently added owner returned and deleted everyone from the project including myself, without any prior discussion at all. He then agreed to work with the new team, only to change his mind shortly afterwards to remove everyone again and delete the revision that was recently committed by the new team. Again, without any prior discussion. Besides the fact that I find it strange that the founder can be removed from a google code project, we now also have the problem of being left without access to the administration pages of our project. Said member now added back members at my request but is effectively taking the project hostage since he refused to give back owner rights to anyone, and nobody has seen the sources he's working on. Can you please revert this change? Can you give us the access to our project back? Also could you please elaborate a bit on the usage of the roles to prevent this? There doesn't seem to be any role to fill the gap between full Owner to Contributor. This has always been a community project, with more people involved than just the people listed on google code. This is not just my own request but the request of our whole little community. Thank you for your help -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-code-hosting/-/vd5jqGDirAsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
