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by blub_researcher
1891 days ago
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In late stage projects there's often a cabal of passive aggressive people in charge who basically use management tactics to stay in power. One of the tactics is to never directly respond to actual issues and ignore everything that the cabal cannot be bothered with. Which is what incites anger in honest people in the first place and leaves them vulnerable to being cancelled. I don't if this is the case here, but this is the reality in other projects. Whether cabal members are the actual top contributors or have any valuable ideas is left as an exercise to the reader. |
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sawyer had decided some time ago that the p5p mailing list wasn't receptive to his ideas and moved things into secret decision making with like 2-3 others in the know, culminating in his announcing perl 7 as a complete surprise to the entire community. with only some people having been asked questions about topics related to it, without even being told that the questions were about a perl 7 plan.
this lack of communications then led to both massive amounts of criticism of the secret process (with some community members even being misrepresented by documents written by sawyer's colleagues in this) and MASSIVE amounts of technical issues being discovered directly after the announcement and people trying to educate about it. sawyer however basically went "i call the shots here", resulting in an election that upended the "pumpking" model, replacing it with a "3 person council" who still have private meetings, but now operate much more publicly