Chris Mattmann acted without authority and completely improperly as an Apache Software Foundation board member as a board member on their own has no authority. Their authority is to participate and vote at board meetings. They are not allowed to transact business, they are not supposed to force themselves on anyone or order anyone around. The one that was acting controlling was this idiot board member that has caused this situation between DataStax and the rest of our community.
Furthermore, when he instructed Cassandra legend Jonathan Ellis, the Cassandra PMC Chair to include certain information in a report to the Apache Software Foundation board that escalated the matter to something that was before the board. I am not an attorney and this should not be taken as legal advice! It is clear to me as one someone who is experienced and trained as a board member that Chris Mattmann and the ASF itself probably will find themselves in court over this. I think a lot of folks should raise this matter with their legal counsel. What happened is not trivial. It is news worthy. I suggest people talk to the media about this story. Ask them to investigate and report the story. Is APC interfering with other communities? Kenneth Brotman From: Kenneth Brotman [mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:29 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: Gathering / Curating / Organizing Cassandra Best Practices & Patterns Importance: High If you read the email message, the first link below, you’ll see that it’s a well intending Apache Foundation board member who could not grasp how our community functioned. Apache Foundation messed up our community by the way they handled a routine inquiry, leaving no option for DataStax but to seek legal counsel. I’ve been there. Your own legal counsel deal the final blow. They tell you all communication has to go through them. They tell you there has to be clear separation. They say you have to take their advice or they will not keep defending you and you will not any personal protection. Anyone can be sued and you will be liable for defending yourself. Sound familiar! Everyone kept saying that everything was good. That the community, our community liked the way things worked. I call on Apache Foundation to reach out to DataStax and fix the mess forthwith! Report openly on your efforts. You can fix your mess Apache Foundation. This email says it all. A total miscall: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg09090.html. And the guy has a PhD! Kenneth Brotman From: Kenneth Brotman [mailto:kenbrot...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:58 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: RE: Gathering / Curating / Organizing Cassandra Best Practices & Patterns Jon, This is considered the start of the problem: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@cassandra.apache.org/msg09050.html That’s according to this well sourced article called “Fear of Staxit: What next for ASF’s Cassandra as biggest donor cuts back” https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/14/datastax_versus_asf_staxeit/ I am one of the people who didn’t know the history and is now as this article describes, caught between “A Rock and a hard place…: http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-rock-and-a-hard-place-between-scylladb-and-cassandra/ I bet it’s been painful for everyone. It’s really said. Kenneth Brotman
