On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:31:03PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote: > .. > I'm not defending Ivan's initial email. His tantrum *was* annoying, > unreasonable, and unfair to those who do care about tkinter. He could > have done better. > > But *we* should be better too. Our response to Ivan has not been > welcoming, and as a community we haven't lived up to our own standards, > as we have piled onto him to express our rightous indignation:
+1 It may be a reflection of me sharing the cultural roots with Ivan, but his original post did not sound particularly offensive to me. I've seen worse. When it comes to communication on public fora, I am a strong believer in Postel's principle of robustness: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
