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Ubuntu Community Council Asks the Kubuntu Project Leader to Step Down
Jonathan Riddell refuses to step down as Kubuntu leader
So this just happened. Scott Kitterman, a Debian developer and member of the Kubuntu Council, decided to make public some emails where it would appear that members of the Ubuntu Community Council asks Jonathan Riddell to step down from his position as a Kubuntu Project leader.
Jonathan Riddell, which is both a KDE and Kubuntu developer, as well as an important member of the Ubuntu community for many years now, is being accused by several members of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu community about his confrontational and aggressive behavior towards them, as the email exchanges exposed today by Scott Kitterman suggest.
Long story short, after several email exchanges, the final decision of the Ubuntu Community Council, which is also backed by Canonical and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, was for Jonathan Riddell to step down from all his positions as a leader within the Ubuntu and Kubuntu communities, for at least 12 months, but still being able to participate to discussions as any other member.
"It is with regret that we write this email to discuss an issue that we feel is negatively impacting the Ubuntu Community. Over a long period of time Jonathan Riddell has become increasingly difficult to deal with. Jonathan raised valid issues and concerns, but reacted poorly when he received answers he did not agree with," reads the first email send to the Ubuntu Community Council regarding the "nasty" behavior of Jonathan Riddell.
Jonathan Riddell refuses to step down as a Kubuntu Project leader
From the email exchanges exposed today by Scott Kitterman, who decided to write a second post on his blog, suggesting that he wants to resign from its position in the Ubuntu and Kubuntu community, it would appear that Jonathan Riddell refused to step down as a Kubuntu Project leader.
As expected, Jonathan Riddell is being backed by members of the Kubuntu Community Council, who fired back at the Ubuntu Community Council's decision to take down the Kubuntu Project leader. "I’d like to thank all the Kubuntu members who just voted to re-affirm me on the Kubuntu Council," says Jonathan Riddell on his blog.
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