A little late to the party, but I needed to get my thoughts straight. I originally intervened because the plan as I then understood it was "end DBIC feature development and transfer ownership to an unknown CPAN author who wasn't one of the main contributors so far as I could tell" (though of course I couldn't be sure because I didn't know - and still don't - who it was intended to be).
>From my point of view "end feature development" is effectively equivalent to "declare project over" (and that seems to be a relatively common POV, as the responses to a certain recent perl.com article have made quite visible), and I felt that the community should have some input into so momentous and potentially irrevocable a decision. The eventual end result of the debate on the list seemed to indicate that continuing to move forward - albeit extremely carefully, as befits an infrastructure level project - was the general consensus, but the sheer vitriol level of the discussion left me substantially burned out in terms of the project. I was *expecting* that one or both of "mst recovers from burnout wrt DBIC" or "community engages and starts making proposals" would happen within a few months; neither did, and it's now a little over a year on and I still haven't been able to muster the time and motivation to get things moving forwards again. I was, admittedly, hoping to do that shortly, but given I've been in a mental state of "hoping to do that shortly" for about the past year I don't think it's reasonable or fair to ask people to rely on it coming true *this* time, especially given I don't think I can honestly claim that *I'm* convinced I'm not still deluding myself in that regard. So at this point, the decision under discussion is basically "retain the status quo, with the attached risk of de-facto death by good intentions that never go anywhere" versus "give the project to the only person other than me with a truly in-depth understanding of the architecture who's also the only person other than me to have led the project, who's now indicated that he is once again willing to do so". I think under the circumstances it's pretty clear which of these options gives DBIC the better odds and best opportunity for ongoing success. As such: +1 -- mst, out. -- If you truly love something, set it free. _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk
