On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
This is a feature and not something we've ever considered changing. It's not at all unusual for founders to pass management of a project on to someone else. 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? > Sorry, but we can't. While you're describing very poor behavior, you haven't described any action by this individual that violates our Terms of Service. 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. > There is a "Committer" role between Owner and Contributor. From your description of events it sounds like the current project owner doesn't want anyone else having commit access? 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. > I'm sorry that you're having the disagreements that you are having, but it sounds like it might be time for a fork. Project management by a committee of mutually trusting individuals (and not being subject to one owner kicking everyone else out) is something that all successful projects must find at some point; I highly recommend Karl Fogel's *Producing Open Source Software* <http://producingoss.com/> for everyone in your position. Good luck, -Nathaniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. 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.
