<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Andrew Beverley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@andybev.com" target="_blank">andy@andybev.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">- RIBASUSHI retains the current namespace<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Peter previously said that he would only continue if all other maintainers relinquished their claims to the DBIC namespace [1]. Could you please clarify your proposal with details on that front and what is to happen should Peter be unable or unwilling to continue working on DBIC?<br><br>If Peter agrees and your proposal carries, I don't want to be in a situation where we have to have this debate again if he decides to take his "well deserved retirement" after all (regardless of whether immediately after the permissions change or some unknown time in the future).<br><br>Speaking personally, what I like about Matt's governance proposal is that it explicitly establishes a continuity plan. I think any alternative proposal ought to be equally clear about continuity and succession.<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>David<br></div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://dbix-class.35028.n2.nabble.com/IMPORTANT-A-discussion-of-DBIC-governance-and-future-development-td7578987i100.html#a7579158">http://dbix-class.35028.n2.nabble.com/IMPORTANT-A-discussion-of-DBIC-governance-and-future-development-td7578987i100.html#a7579158</a><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-3882985058932061682gmail_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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