• Name: Gilmar Santos Jr.
• Email: jgasjr (at) gmail (dot) com
• Company Name: DCC - UFBA
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• Country: Brazil
• City: Natal - RN
• Hear From: University

My view about TWikiCodeOfConduct and TWikiGovernance

I joined this project in Aug/2007 to share with TWiki community the development and results of my undergraduation conclusion job. My work received good feedbacks and I enjoyed a lot to work with TWiki developers. However I noticed something was going wrong with governance and I saw the community building a democratic governace model, that was a formalization of how things already worked at that time. And I also saw a person that I admired a lot (PeterThoeny) to behave as bad as the worst dictators I ever heard about, when he imposed his model and threw away all the hard work that community members had to build the democratic model. And he quitely waited the moment when everyone was happy with the model and came back to development. As soon as imediate development was not needed, he applied the coup. At that time I got very very sad (as many others) and I could not agree with such disgusting act.

All active developers at that time, except Pth and one employee of him, left TWiki and founded Foswiki project. I saw a development speed that I had never seen before and one year later Foswiki is very mature, stable and feature-rich product (including features that was planned to TWiki 5.0, that are not available yet to TWiki users [Standalone architecture, for example]).

I think it's importat to state that I see no problem in code of conduct nor in governance model. The problem was the way it was imposed and the fact that it changed the way community already worked without community bless. By community I'm referring to those people who put a lot of work in TWiki (core, skins and extension developers, bug reporters and people who sistematically answered a lot of questions in Support web and IRC channel).

If you enjoyed my work at TWiki project, keep following it at Foswiki.

If you want more detailed info about my point of view, e-mail me at jgasjr (at) gmail (dot) com.

-- GilmarSantosJr - 2009-11-13

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