[Savannah-hackers] Intolerable behavior of James Blair

[Mathieu Roy]

       James Blair,

I noticed recently that you decided to add yourself to the group
Savannah the Tue 12/30/03.

I created the group Administration to avoid confusion between the group
that develop the software called Savannah and the persons that handle
the installation of Savannah at GNU. I added you to that last group,
since you seems to be paid to do that job -- handling the installed
Savannah at gnu.org. I naturally removed you and Paul Fischer, since
Paul was added in the group Savannah for the explicit purpose handling
support request that are no longer managed by the group called
Savannah but by the group called Administration.

I noticed that you granted yourself the right to readd you to the
group Savannah, the 01/09/04, while you have never been involved in
the Savannah project development, while you have never informed
publicly the developers of Savannah of the intention of being member
of the group, while you have never made any proposal in matter of code
(proposal where you bring the code, not when you just say "please do
that"). 

You also granted yourself to speak for the Savannah developers to
respond to someone offering to work on Savannah -- Savannah
development that is paralysed because of the decisions you made
unilaterally about the Savannah compromise.

Note that a feature called "request for inclusion" exists on
Savannah. Being employee of the FSF USA does not grant you the right
to skip project administrators approval. Being member of the project
Administration on Savannah neither.

Your recent arrival in the FSF US team, for different reasons
perfectly emplained by Loic Dachary in the mail in sent to you this
week, already looked the worse it could. 

I dropped you from the group, since your membership is not something
you can decide by yourself, despite what you may think. I suggest that
you avoid daring redoing such a thing, adding yourself to a group, if
you do not want me to make you a worldwide reputation of wanker.

I noticed something even more funny: you removed from all the members
of the savannah project the right to administrated news submitted from
the Savannah project. Who are you to decide that?

James, you are really doing an horrible job in regard of ethics, you  
apparently have no clue about collaborative work. I hope you'll be
able to do something about that. I guess that pissing off volunteers
is not a serious plan for the GNU project.

I suggest to the persons that employs you to dedicate you to task that
have nothing to do with Savannah.