Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-08-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Guido's term as Benevolent Dictator For Life has been a long one, but > in the wake of his resignation, we have an opportunity to correct some > fundamental flaws in the system. Among them: > > * Guido lacks patience, as evidenced by the

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-08-03 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:12 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Guido's term as Benevolent Dictator For Life has been a long one, but > in the wake of his resignation, we have an opportunity to correct some > fundamental flaws in the system. Among them: > > * Guido lacks patience, as evidenced by the

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-24 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
woops googler is a person working at google saw google-er, someone who googles Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-24 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 7/24/2018 4:32 PM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:27 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer mailto:arj.pyt...@gmail.com>> wrote: not googler i mean google. they requested a change to a pep "They"?  nah.  "Google LLC" did not request anything. People who happen to be working

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-24 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 12:27 PM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > not googler i mean google. they requested a change to a pep > "They"? nah. "Google LLC" did not request anything. People who happen to be working for Google on a Google owned project asked a question

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-24 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
not googler i mean google. they requested a change to a pep Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius > As the Googler who appeared on the mailing list, I can say this was just a > coincidence. I was a bit nervous no one would respond though, given Guido's > vacation

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Adam Cataldo via Python-Dev
> fun fact: weirdly enough after BDFL1 took a vac (for life?), google made > it's appearance on the mailing list > As the Googler who appeared on the mailing list, I can say this was just a coincidence. I was a bit nervous no one would respond though, given Guido's vacation :)

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Please, take this thread off-list. Nobody is interested in you explaining a joke. On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:37:05 +1000 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:47:25AM +0300, Yury Selivanov > > wrote: > >> On

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 08:37:05PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > > I also didn't get initially that it was a joke, it took me > > a few minutes to understand. > > If the reference to PEP 401 didn't tip you off and you don't recognize >

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Oleg Broytman wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:47:25AM +0300, Yury Selivanov > wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:18 PM Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> > >> > * Lately, all Guido's actions have been to benefit his employer, not >> > the Common

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hi! On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:47:25AM +0300, Yury Selivanov wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:18 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > * Lately, all Guido's actions have been to benefit his employer, not > > the Common Pythonista. We have proof of this from reliable reporting > > sources such

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:03 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > I suspect Chris A. was merely joking, though I'm not sure what the joke > ultimately is supposed to be about. > Ah, right, I stopped reading his email after the quoted line. Well executed. Yury > > -- Yury

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:47:25 +0300 Yury Selivanov wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:18 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > > * Lately, all Guido's actions have been to benefit his employer, not > > the Common Pythonista. We have proof of this from reliable reporting > > sources such as Twitter

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-23 Thread Yury Selivanov
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:18 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > > * Lately, all Guido's actions have been to benefit his employer, not > the Common Pythonista. We have proof of this from reliable reporting > sources such as Twitter and social media. > This accusation is ridiculous and not appreciated.

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-22 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
sometimes back after the event the BDFL1 said that "the new BDFL might be less demanding" hint to an imminent new one? i won't tell much the core devs (not all) have already shown their preferences fun fact: weirdly enough after BDFL1 took a vac (for life?), google made it's appearance on the

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-22 Thread Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev
Whatever you decide, please research existing practices and their results so as not to repeat the same mistakes as others made before you. In particular, http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/BenevolentDictator and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern . It would be a waste if Python falls victim to

Re: [Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-22 Thread Eric Fahlgren
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 1:19 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > * Finally, "For Life" is far too long. We need to change our rulers > periodically. > ​With the proposed bi-weekly death matches, "for life" may actually be too short.​ ___ Python-Dev mailing

[Python-Dev] Finding Guido's replacement

2018-07-22 Thread Chris Angelico
Guido's term as Benevolent Dictator For Life has been a long one, but in the wake of his resignation, we have an opportunity to correct some fundamental flaws in the system. Among them: * Guido lacks patience, as evidenced by the brevity of his acceptance posts. See