This is my (hopefully final) followup to the Test::More debacle.
On April 16th I participated in a closed door discussion about the current direction of this bedrock module. An overwhelming majority was content with how things were handled, thus the work is slated for continuation.
My position (for the record) remains unchanged - the current work being released as the 1.301xxx_xxx series has fundamental design issues, while the codebase itself was developed and continues being developed in a reactionary manner. It is therefore not fit for replacing the contents of the Test::More namespace, nor can be made fit without a restart-from-scratch design effort focusing on iterative improvements instead of a 2nd system rewrite.
Given the above, any review work that I carry out is going to fall short of addressing the fundamental issues, and as such would achieve nothing beyond making me complicit in this "crime against the language". Therefore I am recusing myself from the $Level/$TODO review tasks that I volunteered to perform. I have not started pouring over the code in earnest, so I do not know whether there are showstopper bugs lurking underneath.
I want to specifically point out that I do not place any blame on Chad Granum. He was simply put on a collision course with a radically different engineering culture by the previous maintainer of Test::More, and subsequently got near-unanimous encouragement from the participants of QAH2015. Any and all preventable *silent* breakage that will result from this transition is unquestionably our responsibility.
Cheers
