Ahead, sorry, the first version of this email went to the wrong mailing list address.
Hey Shawn, Andy, Randy; I'm including you because you might contribute some valuable historic insight or opinions here as the most significant contributors to CMI. Dear PAUSE admins: I am Mithaldu, until recently the primary maintainer and (by commits and releases) second-majority author of https://metacpan.org/release/MITHALDU/CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.37 briandfoy has only minimally contributed code and was not the original author, but has owner perms on CPAN::Mini::Inject, and decided yesterday to remove my comaint. He did this without contacting me, or me having indicated a lack of interest, and in spite of me still demonstrably being an active (tho not perfect) maintainer. My question is: Is there room to consider this an actionable step based on evidence over perms, or do perms trump this case? My evidence is below: CMI has a history of 166 commits in total. In summary I have contributed 35 of the tracked commits of this module personally, and merged another 29, i.e. shepherded a total of 39% of the commits onto CPAN in 9 releases. In that time briandfoy has contributed only 1 notable and 5 minor commits to the actual development (i.e. 3%), and has not done a single full release of CMI himself, outside of trial releases. As best as i can tell the timeline is as follows, worked out via batchpause/PAUSE-git , https://github.com/AndyA/CPAN--Mini--Inject , https://github.com/ssoriche/cpan--mini--inject : - 2004 to 2008 - SSORICHE does 11 releases, with 54 commits - 2009-02-23 - SSORICHE hands firstcome to BDFOY - 2009-05-10 - ANDYA acquires comaint and moves to github (without BDFOY) - 2009-05-15 - BDFOY contributes one notable commit via ANDYA - 2009 to 2010 - ANDYA contributes 33 commits and 4 more releases - 2010 - MITHALDU contributes 12 commits - 2010 - BDFOY contributes 5 minor commits and 3 trial releases of work by MITHALDU and becomes unresponsive - 2011-05-07 - MITHALDU gains comaint in response to a complaint on modules@ - 2011 to 2017 - MITHALDU contributes 17 more commits, handles merging of 29 commits (including 23 by RWSTAUNER), and handles 7 releases - 2020 - BDFOY acquires firstcome on CPAN::Mini::Inject::Config - 2023 - MITHALDU contributes another 6 commits and 2 releases - 2024-05-23 - BDFOY removes comaint from MITHALDU briandfoy has undeniable held firstcome for CMI for many years, and I am happy to see that he is planning to contribute more, but given that he went as far as removing my comaint with zero communication, i find his behavior questionable, and thus ask the question above. Full disclosure: Based on what I consider to be misbehavior of his on the perl subreddit I have criticized him publicly in the past, for which he harbors a grudge against me. Based on that and interactions we've had in the meantime, I fully expect him to simply ignore me if I were to contact him about this, thus wanted to learn first if there even is any room to question here. -- With regards, Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
