[Dbix-class] (Unofficial) Status of DBIx::Class

[Peter Rabbitson]

Adding my personal 2c for the sake of concerned end-users. Please note 
that I do not have knowledge of what the current management is doing or 
planning to do.


On 07/15/2017 06:03 PM, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> What is the current status of DBIx::Class?  It looks like development
> has all but stopped since last October.[1]  Is somebody actively
> maintaining DBIx::Class somewhere else?  I sent an email to this list
> two months ago regarding a bug that causes incorrect data to be
> inserted with no response from this list.[2]  Is there a better way
> for me to work toward getting the bug fixed?
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/dbsrgits/dbix-class/graphs/commit-activity
> [2]: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2017-May/012630.html
> 

First of all - there is at least one person ( myself ) doing basic 
maintenance, albeit without yet publishing the changes in a 
widely-consumable form. As indicated back in [3] my plan was to resume 
public work once notable development takes place within the "official 
fork". Due to this not happening in a timely manner, I minimized my work 
to small bugfixes and clarifications to problems raised on this list 
and/or the #dbix-class channel. All interactions ( including the one 
with the OP back in May ) were done in private, as to give an 
opportunity to the newly formed team to forge their own path forward.

To this date there haven't been any show-stopper issues that were 
brought to my attention, so the wider userbase is not missing much more 
than what is already currently mothballed in the official repository.

Nevertheless, recently I raised a set of questions to the PAUSE 
administrators [4], which are instrumental for me to continue work under 
the preexisting model. The policy addressing these is afaik in the final 
stages of approval. From my side the plan is to have some sort of 
DBIx::Class::Boring distribution appear on CPAN by the end of Q3 2017, 
pending resolution of the policy issues.

Apologies for not having more information to share at present.

Cheers

[3] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2016-December/012479.html
[4] https://twitter.com/ribasushi/status/884019305876262912