<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Peter Rabbitson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabbit+dbic@rabbit.us" target="_blank">rabbit+dbic@rabbit.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It was suggested elsewhere I am against any "core team" plan. This is entirely false.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi, Peter. <br><br></div><div>Since in another thread you made it clear you interpret even my polite requests as the demands of authority, let me stress that I have a couple questions for you in my personal capacity, that I think would inform the discussion and that you are free to ignore – though I hope you won't. (And in the future, please take that statement above as read if I preface my remarks with 'speaking personally' or the like).<br><br></div><div>So, speaking personally, I understand clearly that you object to Matt being part of a core team, but I'd like to understand the *mechanism* by which you think that will change the evolution of DBIC.<br><br></div><div>Even if Matt were not on a core team, or even if he didn't have PAUSE permissions, I don't think he would disappear from the project. I think he would – if he desired – continue to advocate for his points of view, much as he does in many other parts of the Perl ecosystem where he doesn't have administrative authority.<br><br></div><div>Therefore, I'd like to understand whether you think Matt not being on the core team has merely symbolic power, or whether you think it has a tangible effect and, if so, how you see that working in practice? <br></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Personally, I don't see how it could have anything beyond symbolic value, so given that you object to Matt's influence, I think it would be more effective to identify and advocate for the elevation of contrasting points of view for a "checks and balances" approach. To that end, I appreciate that – in proposing your own view of a possible core team you could support – you've decided to identify some people you think could play a leadership role. Irrespective of whether they are interested, I think that's a constructive step, so I thank you for being willing to do so.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br></div>David<br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>David Golden <<a href="mailto:xdg@xdg.me" target="_blank">xdg@xdg.me</a>> Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg</div></div></div></div></div>
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