[Dbix-class] IMPORTANT: A discussion of DBIC governance and future development

Lasse Makholm lasse at unity3d.com
Wed Oct 5 12:28:36 GMT 2016


On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Leo Lapworth <leo at cuckoo.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 5 October 2016 at 10:44, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+dbic at rabbit.us> wrote:
> > On 10/05/2016 08:50 AM, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It is now much harder to advance either of these points.
> >>
> >> Why?
> >>
> > Because now that you causally dropped an insinuation that a part of the work
> > I put into DBIC itself was performed for material gain
>
> I can't say I considered this for a moment when reading Karen's comment.
>
> I would hope that anyone doing such great work as you did in an Open Source
> project SHOULD have the opportunity to make some money by supporting
> the companies that use it, but I only consider this now you mention
> material gain.
>
> I read Karen's comment as a validation of how important, not just to
> casual users
> but to businesses the work you have or are doing. This is a sign of a successful
> project, not an issue in my mind.

I totally agree. Anyone who knows enough about DBIC (or open source
software in general for that matter) to have read this thread, will
know that your (Peter's) involvement in this project is infinitely
more than just a cash-grab. Frankly, to me at least, that notion is
ludicrous.

I too hail from a critical production environment relying on DBIC at
its core. We've come to rely (and probably take for granted) the
stability of DBIC and thus the expertise and diligence of its
maintainer(s).

However, I too worry about DBIC becoming a one-man project. The idea
of a core-team kind of setup, focused on stability sounds sensible to
me. And I have no good reason to think it wouldn't work.

/Lasse

>
> Leo
>
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