Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance
Arch-based Manjaro Linux "has announced that Manjaro Project e.V. is now officially registered as a non-profit in Germany," reports Linuxiac, "and is therefore a legally separate entity from the commercial Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG... after months of internal wrangling over who was in charge of the project, who had access to the infrastructure and who didn't, and the relationship between the dev team…
Arch-based Manjaro Linux has announced that its project has been officially registered as a non-profit organization in Germany, reports Linuxiac. This marks a significant shift in the project's governance, as it is now a legally separate entity from its commercial counterpart, Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. Internal disputes had arisen over leadership, infrastructure access, and the relationship between the development team and the commercial company.
The Manjaro developers released the Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto in March, criticizing the way the project was being managed. The manifesto claimed that decision-making power had become centralized under the project's founder, Philip Müller, with other developers having limited access to infrastructure. The manifesto also expressed concerns over declining participation, technical issues, and the continued prioritization of commercial interests over the actual development of the distribution.
The developers threatened to fork the distro if talks did not proceed favorably. Philip Müller agreed to discuss the proposed structure once the non-profit was established. The association has now been formally registered, fulfilling a key objective of the manifesto. The developers have already begun managing the distribution's updates and infrastructure without MÜller's oversight, optimizing their development environment in response to persistent automated bot attacks.
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