<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">After some internal communication with DBIC team members (which spurred the bootstrap removal that passed today), I am sending in this proposal to enact Andrew Beverley&#39;s 2016 proposal[1] to reestablish Peter Rabbitson&#39;s FIRSTCOME rights and overall control of the DBIC project.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I believe if there is any chance for this project to continue moving in any direction, this step must be taken to allow ribasushi to continue his excellent work on DBIC, which stopped approximately a year ago. To be clear: there has been not a single code-related commit to the dbix-class repository since ribasushi left [2][3]. There is even a sizeable amount of work[4] that Peter left in master, that has not been touched and has no chance of release. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I have spoken to ribasushi, and confirmed that his circumstances currently allow him to take the project further, on the condition of reestablishing his BDFL status. Given the events of late 2016, I find his preconditions beyond reasonable.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Pragmatically, If there is any hope of this project not being marked officially dead, it will need to be driven by someone with both time and technical ability. The last year+ is ample evidence that ribasushi still remains the only person interested (let alone capable) to do so. There is noone else.<br></span><br>On the chance that someone does decide to vote against this proposal, I request you that clarify _why_ you are choosing dormant project death over activity driven by Peter.<br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thanks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Matt</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[1] </span><a href="http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2016-October/012399.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://lists.scsys.co.uk/piper<wbr>mail/dbix-class/2016-October/<wbr>012399.html</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[2] </span><a href="https://github.com/dbsrgits/dbix-class/commits/master" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://github.com/dbsrgits/db<wbr>ix-class/commits/master</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[3] </span><a href="https://github.com/dbsrgits/dbix-class/graphs/commit-activity" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://github.com/dbsrgits/db<wbr>ix-class/graphs/commit-activit<wbr>y</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">[4] </span><a href="https://github.com/dbsrgits/dbix-class/compare/maint/0.0828xx...master#files_bucket" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://github.com/dbsrgits/db<wbr>ix-class/compare/maint/0.0828x<wbr>x...master#files_bucket</a><div class="gmail-yj6qo" style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><br></div></div>