Jeremy Epstein wrote:
Good grief - this is indeed a very sad state of affairs. It appears that user Drupal-id.com has seriously let the community down in his new role as TinyMCE maintainer, in at least the following ways:
- Removal of key features from 5.x branch - Not a single explanatory message in his CVS commits - Very little maintenance of the issue queue - Completely ignoring the needs and wishes of fellow users and developers - Little or no response to attempts to directly contact him
I would really like to know how and why this user was given ownership of the TinyMCE module. Why was he chosen?
Nobody else applied.
Did he disclose his plans for the module to previous maintainers who passed on responsibility to him?
The previous maintainer had lost interest or didn't have time anymore.
As the new maintainer of TinyMCE, Drupal-id.com has done little more than hijack the module and sabotage it. Although it appears that his intentions are not to ruin TinyMCE, his changes to the module do not seem to benefit anyone's needs except (presumably) his own. He's made a lot of inexplicable changes, without consulting the community at all.
I say we give Drupal-id.com a few days to explain himself, and if he doesn't respond, we hand over TinyMCE to somone more responsible, and start a 5.x-2.x version that actually works.
Let's wait a bit, if he is in Indonesia, then he might have other problems than Drupal atm. Cheers, Gerhard