We've had the requested 24 hour cooling off, and I don't imagine anyone
is surprised that the situation remains unchanged. The commit message
that caused the controversy is still in the PEP repository, and is still
controversial. Whether you think it's the best thing since the last
best thing or the biggest load of bollocks since the last biggest load
of bollocks is irrelevant. It's there, it espouses a political stance,
and by implication the Steering Council support it.
Since explicit is better than implicit :-), I would like to formally ask
the Steering Council to answer the following questions.
1. Does the Steering Council think political statements have any place
in the Python repositories?
2. If so, for the avoidance of doubt does the Steering Council support
the statements in commit 0c6427d?
(https://github.com/python/peps/commit/0c6427dcec1e98ca0bd46a876a7219ee4a9347f4)
3. If not, what do they intend to do about the above commit?
If the answer to question 1 is a qualified yes or no, both follow-up
questions apply.
If the answer to question 1 is a prevarication, non-answer or silence,
people will still draw their own conclusions. I mention this merely to
reinforce the idea that these things are still answers as well as
hostages to fortune.
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