[Dbix-class] GOVERNANCE: Aggregation and conclusion

[Andrew Beverley]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:18:59 Andrew Beverley <andy at andybev.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 10:12:27 -0400 David Golden <xdg at xdg.me> wrote:
> > So to be absolutely clear, it sounds like proposal "B" is to grant
> > Peter the unilateral power initially in dispute.
> > 
> > I.e. he could – on arbitrary day N after your proposal is adopted –
> > merge his remaining work, transfer permissions to an unknown person
> > with an unknown mandate, and retire (aka. the original "project
> > freeze" plan).
> 
> Yes, correct, just like lots of other "upstream" module maintainers
> could do the same.
> 
> Like I say, I personally trust him not to cause such a train-smash,
> but if others don't and would rather see him leave the project
> altogether, then the vote is their opportunity to say so (or under my
> proposal they could use DBIx::Class2 of course).

(I should add that this is just my view based on Riba's previous
comments. We should at least let him have his own point of view on the
matter, which he will presumably provide later today).