Request Co-maint of DateTime::Calendar::Christian

[Ron Savage]

Hi Tom

Seems to me your efforts to reach Eugene have been sufficient, so:

Added WYANT to co-maintainers of DateTime::Calendar::Christian.

--
Ron Savage - savage.net.au

Re: [Dbix-class] GOVERNANCE: Aggregation and conclusion

[Peter Rabbitson]

On 10/30/2016 02:47 AM, David Golden wrote:

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Matt S Trout mailto:m...@shadowcat.co.uk>> wrote:

As such, I hereby call upon the PAUSE administration to adjust the
permissions
for all namespaces within the DBIx::Class distribution in accordance
with:

http://lists.scsys.co.uk/pipermail/dbix-class/2016-October/012365.html



I'm very pleased to see how the DBIC community has engaged in honest
discussion about self-governance.  It's been a long road, but one that I
think will serve the community well going forward.


I am pleased with the discussion that took place as well: it highlighted 
unambiguously the rift between two main groups of users. Having on 
record where various participants stand, including their extended 
position is an invaluable resource to have going forward.




I'll make the changes in the next 24-48 hours and make a final
announcement when it's done.


However I find David's outlined course of action appalling. During the 
discussion advocates of a development speedup articulated multiple times 
in no uncertain terms that slavish catering to existing codebases will 
take a backseat. The certainty of this was so great that it prompted me 
to re-commit to keep working on the project in the same manner as it was 
led in the past ~4 years. There was a sizable support for this sort of 
arrangement.


Imagine my surprise when the PAUSE admins (after already having 
prevented me from taking my long-deserved retirement by scuttling my 
original plan) are informing me that my ownership of the project will be 
taken away by fiat anyway.


David, I realize that at this point you will do whatever it is you want 
to do. I am simply putting it on record that the transfer is happening 
against my will, and to a long-term (likely catastrophic) detriment of 
the existing userbase of DBIx::Class.


Additionally I believe the current group of PAUSE admins embarrassingly 
failed their first real accountability test. I strongly suggest 
revisiting your processes at the next QA Hackathon: the way you 
currently handle things "by ear" is absolutely unworkable going forward.

Re: [Dbix-class] GOVERNANCE: Aggregation and conclusion

[David Golden]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Peter Rabbitson  wrote:

David, I realize that at this point you will do whatever it is you want to
> do. I am simply putting it on record that the transfer is happening against
> my will, and to a long-term (likely catastrophic) detriment of the existing
> userbase of DBIx::Class.
>
>
Peter, is there some reason that you feel your repeated public
proclamations are somehow not "on the record"?  I think at this point your
position is clear.

>
>   Imagine my surprise when the PAUSE admins (after already having
> prevented me from taking my long-deserved retirement by scuttling my
> original plan)
>

If you need to retire, you are free to do so.  I've seen no evidence of
anyone forcing you to continue your involvement against your will.  To the
extent you think "scuttling" prevents you from doing so, this is a
constraint of your own devising, not something imposed externally and
certainly not by the PAUSE administrators.

You had numerous invitations and opportunities to engage constructively
with interested parties about your retirement and succession – first with
your co-maintainers and later with me as a representative of PAUSE
administrators.  You chose not to do so.  Instead you chose to respond with
hostility, disrespect, denial and deception.

Despite your attitude, actions and repeated attempts to provoke, I feel I
treated you with patience, respect and fairness.

As you insisted, this issue has been discussed almost entirely in public.
In hindsight, I think you were right: having this play out publicly takes
away any mystery as to what happened or how decisions were made.

Given that I, too, am "on the record" throughout, I have no qualms about
how my words and actions reflect on me as a person or as a leader within
the community.

Regards,
David

-- 
David Golden  Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg