Hi all, Over the past 8 weeks, we [the secretaries] have had a number of voting members, former project representatives and well known community members alike approach us regarding a situation they believe is being detrimental to the continued success of the FIG and the harmony in the group. It is, essentially, the impact of Paul M Jones on the harmony of the mailing list and the impact his contribution is having on making this group welcoming or pleasant to be involved with.
To avoid putting words in mouths but still convey the common grievances, we’ll quote from those who have complained: - “This individual is toxic to the group and is therefore directly affecting the ability of the group to perform its aims” - “I believe this individual is the sole biggest cause of loss of respect and members for the FIG” - “I stepped down as a voting representative due to this member” - “The presence of this individual makes me not want to contribute or get involved with to the PHP FIG” - “My main problem with him is that every time I opened a threads lately to read up, he's getting into some tantrum with other over small meaningless things. Sometimes he might even be right but honestly I don't even care whether he is right or wrong. They is just plainly disrupting the FIG at this stage. He used to be annoying, but I was fine with that, this is just disruptive though.” The following complainants said they are happy to be named (Nobody asked not to be named, but some we never asked if they were happy to be named): - Ross Tuck - Community figure - Larry Garfield - Drupal project representative - Graham Daniels - PHP League project representative - Fabien Potencier - Symfony project representative - Mike van Riel - PHPDoc project representative - Jordi Boggiano - Composer project representative - Anthony Ferrara - Community figure - Phil Sturgeon - Former project representative and community figure - Christopher Pitt - Former project representative and community figure - Rafael Dohms - Community figure - Marc Alexander - phpBB project representative - Cees-Jan Kiewiet - ReactPHP project representative In total the number of complaints about this individual totals about 20 however there have also been other concerns aired about this individual publicly and a number of individuals who contacted us said they in turn had heard complaints about Paul from others; as a result of this, and being explicitly asked what we can do/to do something about this situation, including requests of this specific course of action we are starting this discussion on PMJ’s membership. It is not the role of the secretaries to handle this kind of thing or pass judgement on member projects so we are posting this topic to invite discussion from both sides of the table out in the open. We believe having this discussion going on for too long will not be conducive to the FIG so a vote [to request a new representative from Aura, which will result in Aura’s expulsion unless a new representative is provided] will then commence unless a conclusion has been reached agreeable by all sides before that point. That vote should then put an end to the current situation. To clarify further, this topic does not indicate the opinion of secretaries that this project representative should be expelled, but that we have been asked by a significant number of voting members and community members to do something about it so we are moving those complaints into public for discussion by voting members as we can do nothing but move the discussion and complaints to the mailing list for the attention of voting members. I know this is a difficult discussion to avoid making personal, but please try and keep it civil and respect self-throttling. People have requested we ensure we always have two week discussion periods before voting on matters which means that we will not lock this topic unless we have no other option open to us but will be issuing temporary mailing list bans on anyone not respecting rules about civility or self throttling; more than 3 responses in a 24 hour period will result in a 24 hour temporary ban, as will repeatedly making posts that cross boundaries into flaming. If rules are broken multiple times, we will increase the time period of bans. Many thanks, The Secretaries -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAAqcDMhe-Uk%3Dwwcu_z7VFY9Uy12NsTQ4CnoXSFGfafBDpQscww%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
