Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> "I"
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> You?
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> Or someone else?
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> I am quite happy to agree that your understanding and experience of storage
> management is better than mine. But that's not the key question, in a
> volunteer organisation. The questions I ask, repeating Jan's comments in
> another message, are.

Oh, I understand that fully.  And I'd be happy to lend some of my time.  But
you don't make people inclined to help when people are lobbing snarky
comments like "we'll wait breathlessly for you to do it."  The impression
I'm getting from most of you right now is that you're hell bent on solving
the problem your way, and no one is interested in exploring the technical
merits of other approaches.

Hell, I would even help with work towards your desired method *if* I thought
that was the consensus after a genuine exchange and consideration of ideas.
I definitely won't should it appear that we have some kind of elitist cabal
that will make their decision in isolation.  If that's going to be the case
then this should have never been raised on an open forum like the module
author's list.

Quite frankly, at times some discussions on this list fail the concept of a
technical meritocracy, and tend towards an established aristocracy.

 	--Arthur Corliss
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