[Dbix-class] VOTE: Relinquish firstcome rights to Peter Rabbitson

[Matt S Trout]

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 05:31:56PM +0000, Matt S Trout wrote:
> A little late to the party, but I needed to get my thoughts straight.
> 
> I originally intervened because the plan as I then understood it was "end
> DBIC feature development and transfer ownership to an unknown CPAN author who
> wasn't one of the main contributors so far as I could tell" (though of course
> I couldn't be sure because I didn't know - and still don't - who it was
> intended to be).
> 
> From my point of view "end feature development" is effectively equivalent to
> "declare project over" (and that seems to be a relatively common POV, as the
> responses to a certain recent perl.com article have made quite visible), and
> I felt that the community should have some input into so momentous and
> potentially irrevocable a decision.
> 
> The eventual end result of the debate on the list seemed to indicate that
> continuing to move forward - albeit extremely carefully, as befits an
> infrastructure level project - was the general consensus, but the sheer
> vitriol level of the discussion left me substantially burned out in terms
> of the project.
> 
> I was *expecting* that one or both of "mst recovers from burnout wrt DBIC" or
> "community engages and starts making proposals" would happen within a few
> months; neither did, and it's now a little over a year on and I still haven't
> been able to muster the time and motivation to get things moving forwards
> again. I was, admittedly, hoping to do that shortly, but given I've been in
> a mental state of "hoping to do that shortly" for about the past year I don't
> think it's reasonable or fair to ask people to rely on it coming true *this*
> time, especially given I don't think I can honestly claim that *I'm* convinced
> I'm not still deluding myself in that regard.
> 
> So at this point, the decision under discussion is basically "retain the
> status quo, with the attached risk of de-facto death by good intentions that
> never go anywhere" versus "give the project to the only person other than me
> with a truly in-depth understanding of the architecture who's also the only
> person other than me to have led the project, who's now indicated that he is
> once again willing to do so".
> 
> I think under the circumstances it's pretty clear which of these options
> gives DBIC the better odds and best opportunity for ongoing success.
> 
> As such:
> 
> +1
> 
>  -- mst, out.
> 
> -- 
> If you truly love something, set it free.
> 
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