Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto

[Aragorn]

Four days ago…

@Aragorn

Given that we have not received any reply whatsoever from the owner of the Manjaro GmbH & Co KG after having now twice royally extended the reasonable amount of time to consider our proposal, and also twice having politely prompted the individual in question for a response, we consider ourselves at present time to have moved into Stage 1 of our resolve as stated in the document above.

Stage 1 itself consists of three phases.

• Phase 1: We publish this document in the Internal Hub. This is the phase currently in effect.
• Phase 2: If we are still being ignored 48 hours from now, we will move this thread to the Member Hub.
• Phase 3: If we are still being ignored 48 hours after that, we will move the thread to the Announcements section, and we will lock the forum in read-only mode.

Two days ago…

@Aragorn

Always remember, @philm, that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. Right now it’s the other way around, due to the bottleneck imposed by the current organizational structure.

That all said, I believe @romangg’s post below deserves a sincere reply.

Three days ago…

@romangg

You say that any “transfers of company assets or infrastructure require close consultation with the company”. But the above document already provides a precise list of assets, that are supposed to be moved into the association:

@Aragorn

• The Manjaro Linux, Manjaro-Kernels and Manjaro-ARM GitHub organizations.
• The self-hosted Manjaro GitLab.
• Any relevant Git repositories.
• The manjaro.org domain.
• The Manjaro forum.
• Relevant Manjaro cloud organizations at for example Hetzner.
• The Manjaro CDN.
• Community finances and donations, such as OpenCollective.
  […]

From my perspective I don’t see an issue with these assets being moved into the association, do you?

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Given that @philm is obviously stalling for time — as some of us expected already — or even worse, hoping that this will all blow over, we have now decided to skip Phase 2 and enter Phase 3.

Concretely, this means that…

• the general strike will continue;
• this thread will now be moved straight into the Announcements section of the forum without passing through the members-only Member Hub;
• public discussion is now encouraged;
• an archive.org copy of this thread will be created as evidence.

At this point, we are not locking the forum in read-only mode yet, but depending on whether we get a satisfactory response or not, we might still decide to go ahead with that in the next couple of days.