On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Peter Rabbitson <ribasu...@cpan.org> wrote: > The administrative transfer *combined* with the amount of work put > in by myself, and the utter disinterest of all other maintainers, places > me practically, procedurally and morally in the position to unilaterally > decide what to do with said project.
We repeat: by PAUSE admin fiat, this is no longer true. Saying it repeatedly will not make it true. I considered preemptively escrowing DBIC primary permissions with ADOPTME pending the outcome of these discussions, but felt that might discourage you from participating further and might show unfair bias against your ideas and moral authority, which is not our goal. However – make no mistake – unilateral transfers will be undone unless we feel satisfied that the principles we have established for an orderly resolution have been honored. The rest of this email is an attempt to assist in consideration of those principles. > I again must stress that there has been a huge 9+ months "discussion period" > during which nobody (besides mst) came forward expressing concerns regarding > my plans. > [...snip...] > No user or former committer has come forward with anything even resembling > dissatisfaction since I announced my plans last December. If by "announcing your plans" means things like [1], it's possible that you think you have clearly conveyed your plans in a way that isn't what came across to others. Quoting from that link [1]: > In 3 weeks, on Christmas Morning, I will effectively leave CPAN. I will > transfer my FIRSTCOME permissions to perl developers of my choosing, > and will relinquish all COMAINTs I hold across PAUSE. To me, that sounds like a general departure statement. It doesn't sounds like a plan for DBIC. It certainly doesn't sound like "I'm going to freeze DBIC", which from your earlier email [2] was the first hint I got of an actual plan: > I am still planning to remove all co-maint perms and handover the first-come > to a yet-undisclosed person. Given no clear line of succession [...] > the only responsible thing to do is to select a single spot of > responsibility and provide all possible support and infrastructure > for a proper project-freeze. That's not "I'm leaving CPAN and will be letting others take things forward". That's "I'm kicking out everyone already involved and freezing the project." Has that *specific* plan been previously articulated anywhere? If so, I missed it in your footnotes. Has it been publicly discussed in a DBIC or other public forum? If so, please share (or reshare) links. So barring evidence of that discussion anywhere within the DBIC community, my hypothesis is that this communication gap is behind at least part of the current disconnect about succession plans. You said: > there has been a huge 9+ months "discussion period" during which > nobody (besides mst) came forward expressing concerns regarding my plans. What prompted the current dispute was not any specific plan – it was the lack of any discussion of specifics. You say nobody has come forward to object. Consider that nobody has come forward in support, either. This is the fundamental issue that concerns PAUSE administrators – that a significant directional change to a project as important as DBIC is being done without public discussion of specifics. Having been made aware of the situation in greater detail, *we are expressing concerns regarding (that part of) your plan*. It is now no longer just Matt. We don't oppose your plan. We oppose the lack of transparency around an important decision for an important CPAN project. We, too, encourage other maintainers and/or community members to join the conversation. You also said: > #4 is not an ideal, but a viable chance for the user community to come together and take responsibility > for steering things further. I'd love to hear more about how you think that might work, as it sounds like exactly what the PAUSE administrators think would be beneficial to resolving this situation. Regards, David [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/3vnsiw/suspending_ efforts_on_my_riba2016_crowdfunding/ [2] http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.modules/2016/10/msg96174.html -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg
