I agree with the move, but only if we use a open commmunity fork of the CSS code and not the one that is maintained by the UGhent/imec team.
The reason we created the open fork at the time was that bug reports in the UGhent/imec-controlled issue tracker were being vandalised. (!)
That was a while ago, but this morning I was chatting with Joachim van Herwegen about making some substantial contributions to the CSS project, and shortly after I received the following email from a different member of the UGhent/imec team (not Joachim himself):
Michiel,
I repeat: please leave our employees alone.
I am […], and we certainly don’t have to spend time contacting you.
That decision is final, so you can stop doing it.The reason we don’t interact with you is because 1) you don’t have the necessary technical competencies, and 2) you’re just out to steal people’s time to put yourself in the spotlight. The entire community has already lost months of work on interactions with you, and we as Ghent University/imec will no longer go along with that.
You are the stereotype of an attention-addicted narcissist, which is why [we] need to protect [our] employees from wasting our precious time.
Go steal other people’s time, you will get more applause and spotlights there. But not from us. Jamais.
(“Jamais” is French for “never”).
It is therefore, I think, clear that the way this team interacts with the rest of our community is unacceptable, and the governance of this code repository is not in line with the spirit of open source software development that we want solidcommunity.net to be associated with.
After years in the Solid community I and others have gotten used to the bullying, but that doesn’t make it OK. Let’s stick to our spirit of open collaboration and friendly manners.
So by all means, please produce the migration script that Inrupt generously offered to sponsor, but let’s make sure we migrate solidcommunity.net to an inclusive community fork of CSS, governed in an open and inclusive way, so that everybody who is enthusiastic about Solid is welcome to contribute as they can.