On 10/07/2016 08:40 PM, David Golden wrote:
* The plan of succession I formed in December 2015, and had not
deviated from until this week, is presently null and void. It was
an unusual arrangement, with critical pieces based on a combination
of promises and assumptions. Recent events resulted in the invalidation
of several such foundation points, and there is no possible way I myself
could presently endorse it.
I find this very vague and would appreciate any additional information
you feel you can share. I'm disappointed that we (both the community
and the PAUSE admins, in this context) never got to hear more details
about your plan than what I quoted in my original email of this thread.
The plan got scrapped for 2 main reasons:
1) It was my understanding[1] that Matt recognized and accepted his
irrelevance to the project[2], and was not going to interfere with it
going forward (see next email "4/5..." on why this is crucial)
2) I gravely misjudged how far the user community drifted from the
unanimous endorsement[3] 3 years ago of the following (I quote):
Would DBIx::Class benefit more from my continued, albeit somewhat
abrasive, presence at the helm (which implies continuous rejection
of "worse is better", slow and careful "ready when ready"-style
release cycles, multiple layers of checks and testing, and generally
slow vetting and acceptance of external contributions)?
The person I was going to hand an *exclusive* FIRSTCOME to, would be
among other things relying on a steadfast, demanding and uncompromising
user community to keep them honest. The threads demonstrated that this
community of users no longer exists (or perhaps they are silent, which
in the end would have the same effect).
[1] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2016-October/012279.html
[2] https://gist.github.com/ribasushi/f2502a29f5e2c7c48e03f7bd34e7ddd2
[3]
http://blogs.perl.org/users/peter_rabbitson/2013/07/crowdsourcing-self-confidence.html#comments
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