Manjaro Linux Developers Experience A Mass Exodus [Updated]

[Cthulhux]

Ha, even the BSDs have a more stable developer base.

[lowflyer]

I think this is unfair

Well, I don't think this is unfair. I understand very well that somebody *can* be swallowed up by his work without him realizing. Just look at the pace of articles. It's currently >= 10 a day! Its been so since begin (middle?) last year. I'm not a prophet, but a breakdown *will* happen. No, I'm not unfair, I could just silently leave...

Look what others think:

You mean this wasn't already happening?

I used to like Michael's articles (also with his face, according some comments)

To be honest, I could make the argument that you're the fool.

I'd like to see that argumentation line...

(PS: you are correct, I *am* an active user of AdBlock. See my profile.)

[computerquip]

Michael,
I've been a follower of phoronix for the last 3+ years. I've seen you increasing the pace of new articles produced. I'm a workaholic too. But I've had to reduce my daily worktime to 10 hours or less, because it had a serious impact on the quality of my work.

The quality of your articles has decreased significantly. You may have gotten away with being "duped" this time. Please stop your "10 articles a day" mantra. I don't want to see you making a complete fool out of yourself.

Again: I prefer one single well researched article a day over 10 shallow fifteen-liners.

regards Willi ...

I think this is unfair as this hasn't really been the case in the previous months. There are less articles of higher quality for at least the previous months, especially compared to the days Michael would consistently point out ad-blockers.

To be honest, I could make the argument that you're the fool.

[ncopa]

Some insight can be gained from my post to the AUR general mailing list:

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-July/029069.html

I have no idea what the internal conflict was about (and i don't really care), but you will probably find this useful:

http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-protect-your-open-source-project-from-poisonous-people

[LLStarks]

Michael,
I've been a follower of phoronix for the last 3+ years. I've seen you increasing the pace of new articles produced. I'm a workaholic too. But I've had to reduce my daily worktime to 10 hours or less, because it had a serious impact on the quality of my work.

The quality of your articles has decreased significantly. You may have gotten away with being "duped" this time. Please stop your "10 articles a day" mantra. I don't want to see you making a complete fool out of yourself.

Again: I prefer one single well researched article a day over 10 shallow fifteen-liners.

regards Willi ...

You mean this wasn't already happening?

Phoronix is and always has been a Linux tabloid.

Every article is graced with Michael's shit-eating grin that screams "how can I manipulate the FLOSS community today?".

[magika]

Michael,
I've been a follower of phoronix for the last 3+ years. I've seen you increasing the pace of new articles produced. I'm a workaholic too. But I've had to reduce my daily worktime to 10 hours or less, because it had a serious impact on the quality of my work.

The quality of your articles has decreased significantly. You may have gotten away with being "duped" this time. Please stop your "10 articles a day" mantra. I don't want to see you making a complete fool out of yourself.

Again: I prefer one single well researched article a day over 10 shallow fifteen-liners.

regards Willi ...

B-b-but what will happen to clicks/hour?

[lowflyer]

Dear Michael,

Michael, you've allowed yourself to be duped, since i am a Manjaro development team member and interestingly, I am not Phil Muller.

A handful of people left, one of them has gone on to attempt to 'troll' us by any avenue he can (including malicious attacks on web servers, impersonation of us on other website/services, and much more), of which this Phoronix article is assisting him with. The Manjaro team still stands at at least 15+ people.

Of those who left, only one was a "core" team member, the rest were forum moderators and one was an edition maintainer.

In future Michael if you have any questions about Manjaro please feel free to contact me.

Regards,
Rob McCathie

Michael,
I've been a follower of phoronix for the last 3+ years. I've seen you increasing the pace of new articles produced. I'm a workaholic too. But I've had to reduce my daily worktime to 10 hours or less, because it had a serious impact on the quality of my work.

The quality of your articles has decreased significantly. You may have gotten away with being "duped" this time. Please stop your "10 articles a day" mantra. I don't want to see you making a complete fool out of yourself.

Again: I prefer one single well researched article a day over 10 shallow fifteen-liners.

regards Willi ...

[korrode]

Updates / Related info:

The Arch Linux forum thread referenced in the article now clearly shows the posts were made by a troll impersonating us:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183991

Some insight can be gained from my post to the AUR general mailing list:

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-July/029069.html

Phil has made a statement here:

https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=14971.0

With some further comment here:

https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=14971.msg136856#msg136856

@Michael:
I appeal to you to simply delete the article (not this forum thread), it literally only exists as result of misinformation from an outright troll.

[BlackStar]

I'm on the Manjaro team that maintains the MATE side and this is hog wash, you need to listen to korrode. People are trolling and impersonating. There are still lots of people let to pick up slack that are on the team .

...why?

[edoantonioco]

Manjaro is by far the best distro I have ever used, I hope it gets stronger. Devs leaving is not necessarily something that shouldn't happen.