Fwiw, as of now this has resulted in a new release with a raft of changes, among which is this: https://metacpan.org/release/BRIANDFOY/CPAN-Mini-Inject-1.003/diff/MITHALDU/CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.37#META.yml
Of which Karen Etheridge (ETHER), as another contributor, disapproves. I'm CCing her in with this. On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 11:15 PM Christian Walde <walde.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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)
