Community is big. I've seen one major Perl ORM and one major framework get temporarily shut down because of people problems. In one case, a CPAN administrator stepped in to mediate the problem. When the ORM project was shut down temporarily, my first thought was "What will I use if this never comes back?".
I think everyone has had their ego involved with their code at some point or another in their career. I know I have, but I try to make conscious efforts to become detached from it. This is a problem with coding teams, egos clash, and the code goes to shit. That ORM I mentioned hasn't really recovered from the meltdown. I try to keep an open mind, but I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
Be careful of a community with too many zealots and not enough level headed individuals. Enthusiasm is great, but when it turns predatory, or I might even say cannibalistic in the event the predation is towards other Perl modules, people end up looking like idiots and the Perl community as a whole suffers. We're all members of the Perl community.
