Honestly I hadn’t even heard of Manjaro until I saw that it was the new PBP default image. I’m not familiar with the drama. Sorry. It seems to be a smooth product so I do hope they work it out.
Jonathon Fernyhough, a well known member of the Manjaro community, was placed in charge of managing the funds.
Phil wanted to use $2k to purchase a laptop for one of the developers and wanted to bypass the process. This resulted in a debate between the two and ultimately Phil fired him and made himself treasurer. The community took to the forums to inquire into what Phil was doing, and he began locking/deleting threads and banning moderators.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/hwo33h/change...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23940824
https://linuxreviews.org/Manjaro_Linux_Lead_Developer_In_Hot...
That mixed with the deals he was cutting, proprietary software, as well as the SSL craziness (twice), really turned me off to them and I lost faith in the distro.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/31yayt/manjaro_forgo...
https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/change-of-treasurer-for...