[TYPO3-english] A black day for the TYPO3 community

Gideon So gideonso at livingwater.org.hk
Mon Jun 10 04:46:48 CEST 2013


Dear Jigal,

	This sounds like a group of children playing "don't happy to play with 
you' game. It is really shameful. A really childish act.

	Please be mature enough to say sorry. Not only say it and please feel 
really sorry for your unrespectful deeds.

Gideon So


於 2013年06月10日 星期一 02:16 上午, Jigal van Hemert 提到:
> Hi,
>
> Although I posted to the German list too, this post is in English
> because I simply lack the language skills to express my feelings in the
> right words in German (I can read and understand it quite well and can
> express myself in daily, casual conversations). It would be nice if
> someone could translate.
>
> Tolleiv Nietsch announced in various places that he would stop
> maintaining the extension TemplaVoilà. Discussion about this decision
> can take place in the typo3.projects.templavoila list, please. This post
> is about what happened at the TYPO3 Camp Stuttgart.
>
> After the news reached t3cs part of the crowd started cheering. A
> reaction I can't understand; something shameful, unacceptable,
> appalling, even disgusting. Next, I can't understand why nobody stood up
> to tell these people that this is unacceptable and disrespectful behaviour.
>
> Someone said that it wasn't about the maintainer, whom most even didn't
> know, but about the product. This almost makes it worse; is it okay
> because you don't know the person who spend a lot of time and energy in
> maintaining an extension that was used by many, that is still used a
> lot? If you don't like a product you can simply not use it.
>
> Today I am ashamed to be part of a community of which a group of members
> responds in such a manner.
> To the people who cheered: if you agree that this behaviour is not
> acceptable, step forward and have the decency to make a sincere apology.
> If you think that your behaviour was acceptable, I really don't think
> you should be part of this community.
> To organisers of events: if this happens during your event, it is in my
> mind your moral obligation to act against such misbehaviour.
>
> I really hope that this was a one-time event and that we don't have to
> witness this ever again.
>



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