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Re:The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct e... by luckylion on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:50AM (#28181589)
> The answer is that you know the leader and you trust them. If you don't, you should leave.

That sounds like a recipe for a cult.

People like to know what is and isn't okay, and leaving it up to someone's feeling, even if you generally trust that person, makes the whole thing very fragile.

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Re:The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct e... by AlbertCory on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:28PM (#28181912)
"Very fragile" and the Bus Factor: those things ignore the Lindy Effect (as modified by Taleb).

Monarchy in one form or another has lasted thousands of years. It does have the succession problem (or the Bus Factor), but requiring the monarch to designate a successor is the usual solution to that.

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Re:The Perl Foundation is fragmenting over Code of Conduct e... by okareaman on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:56AM (#28181644)
Ye, because then you have the Bus Factor to worry about. I think the Rust language project is a good example of how to do it right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

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