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Re: [science-pmc] ChemClipse / Retire Project Lead

Hi PMC/EMO,

I'm fine with retirement, as from my experiences ChemClipse is effectively a project only managed for the whole purpose of Lablicate GmbH, so you are either working for Lablicate GmbH or it is impossible to make substantial contributions:

- issues are created and instantly fixed by a commit so no way to really participate here, as there is no API baseline constantly break existing code without any notice - on the other hand code contributed by me are just reverted/removed or even reclaimed as own code, my request to just working on distinct branches was rejected - No releases for years or even a downloads of ChemClipse (beside building from source), so there is no real way for any community wanting to actually use it as is, as a real open-source solution without any additional terms - Lablicate GmbH even tried to sue me on court for offering solutions based on ChemClipse

So for me ChemClipse is just a dead-end for any open-source minded contributor and I thus won't mind leaving it.

Anyways it was fun to work on ChemClipse and I wish all the best to current and future contributors and of course the whole science community.

Have a good day,
 Christoph


Am 09.06.22 um 06:54 schrieb Philip Wenig:
Dear PMC,

I would like to retire Christoph Läubrich as a project lead / committer of ChemClipse:
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse

Christoph has not taken any actions since April 15th 2020 on ChemClipse:
https://github.com/eclipse/chemclipse/commits?author=laeubi

My relation to Christoph is problematic. He worked two years for my company Lablicate GmbH. Eventually, in February 2020 he had to go due to several reasons. I kept him in the position of a project lead / committer for 2 years now to see if he will keep on supporting the project, despite of our conflict. As it turned out, he offers a similar software, based on ChemClipse, since 2020:

https://labratry.de/en

As he didn't do any commits on ChemClipse but seems to be very active on his own project, I assume that he either just consumes the ChemClipse bundles as is or has deeply forked the source code of ChemClipse.

That's the reason why I'd like to retire him as a project lead / committer.


Best,
Philip



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