That's great news on two fronts! (1) DBIC gets (back) a committed maintainer with a vision for the future of the project (2) It happened via an orderly transition, managed within the community, and with a clear succession plan
I'm really pleased to hear this happened. Thanks for sharing it, Peter! David On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:14 AM, Peter Rabbitson <ribasu...@leporine.io> wrote: > On 12/11/2016 02:23 PM, David Golden wrote: > >> >> Having discharged this final responsibility in my role in the DBIC >> dispute, I declare the matter resolved as far as PAUSE >> administration is concerned. >> >> > > Greetings, > > As per the recent repeat-referendum[1][2] my ownership of the DBIx::Class > namespace has been restored. Frew ( then FIRSTCOME ) made the initial > transfers dropping his permissions, and I proceeded to remove the rest of > the COMAINTs as per my original plans. > > In the foreseeable future I do not plan to make any further changes to the > PAUSE permissions ( baring correcting obvious omissions ). I have also > placed my intent on record on the current mailing list [3] > > In addition I have given comaint to the NOXFER meta-user, to reflect the > same intent. The project documentation does not yet reflect any > instructions for the PAUSE admins so here they are: > - If I am to become unresponsive, FIRSTCOME is to be transferred to user > FREW. He would know what to do next > - In case both Frew and myself perish under suspicious circumstances: I > authorize the PAUSE admins to hand over the project to whomever they see fit > > I sincerely hope this is the last email clarifying the state of the > DBIx::Class namespace for a very long time > > Cheers! > > [1] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2018-January/012740.html > [2] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2018-January/012771.html > [3] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2018-January/012774.html > > -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg
