On 10/03/2016 10:37 PM, David Golden wrote:
<snip> In the ensuing discussion, Peter disclosed additional details about his plans for the future of DBIC
Given the discussion generated way more interest than I anticipated, at this point I am pausing all activity ( both code and administrative changes ), until at least the 8th of October. I want to give ample time for all interested parties to state their thoughts.
From my side, in order to highlight the main "point of contention" if you will, I am pulling together several pieces from the aforementioned threads:
How much more concerning, then, to discover in the last few days that you have seen your DBIC-related activities since December as effectively winding up the project, rather than preparing to leave it to others. ... I know a bunch of the the pending changes are not ready to merge (or "sub-par" if you will); this is because I haven't had the motivation to put more work into them ... I suspect if we managed to get all of the branches people had planned that were delayed because riba's response to the proposed features was "yes, but please wait for me to finish X first" done then that work in itself might be a major release's worth. ... While I get that its (n.b. DBIC) depended on a fair bit, I don't think that means being *perfect* to the exclusion of all experimentation. I don't think I've come across other bits of CPAN, apart from maybe the ones in core, that attempt to be as rigorous in their perfection. Really, if people upgrade, and encounter an issue .. they can either downgrade and wait, or pitch in and help (or pay someone to).. this is open source after all.
While the project does not have a bright future under my (now likely moot) plan, the approach indicated above is, in my opinion, the worst possible direction, one I worked really hard to save this codebase from.
Nevertheless, if nobody else finds this problematic: I will step aside and let an eager community, inadvertently suppressed all these years, steer this project further.
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