By your logic, anything run by a BDFL would be abandoned.
The "B" in "BDFL" stands for benevolent. Neither Sawyer, nor you Todd, exhibit this quality.
Thanks! My comment was not about Perl's governance so much as most other open source projects. Some have a complex governance but the majority are managed by a select few. Isn't this the common case?
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However, assuming it to be the implied rather than the assumed (or default) is perhaps a misunderstanding.
the internal sarcasm here is those who wish to rebuild, to evolve, object the changes to the original form. Those who have built and maintained, object to the adherence of a constant, or common, universal state.
Honestly i think Gloucester would be looking sideways at flies, wanton boys and gods right now.
]]>So as a person who has toiled for a foundation that doesnt even extend membership too you, why not support opening TPF up to membership? Who in turn electing board members? Why not support a model that engages with the perl community and the few remaining businesses that rely on perl?
In 2020 aren't there better models for enagement than saying "join this email list and read this irc channel".
The current "model" has resulted in Perl about to fall off of TIOBE as companies abandon it, notwithstanding no significant feature gap compared to other comparable languages.
So whilst there is enthusiasm for change - as the above post, prior posts and the conversations on reddit and other forums demonstrate - there is rapidly declining confidence that making changes is being managed in a consultative, constructive and open way.
Put simply. Which model is more likely to grow perl?
Perl 7 will succeed if many people welcome it and everyone supports it.
However, I think the remaining users of Perl will remain because of the stability of that Perl.
If, in reality, the move to Perl 7 doesn't work, I think it's an opportunity to reconsider adopting "use v7".
I have a very similar thinking of Leon.
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They were, but you used <quote>
(which isn’t a thing, and which the tag filter therefore doesn’t permit) rather than <blockquote>
. I’ve fixed that for you.
People are more than welcome to maintain systems which allow search engines to index the content. Reddit does that and so does Stackoverflow. No platforms where listed above.
It's unfortunate that being indexed by a search engine is a deal breaker for some people, but it's not for over 5000 others.
]]>That avoids filling the inbox with unrelated discussion, adds access to the history, adds searchability and being indexed.
Still not for everybody, but in my opinion overall a better experience.
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