On 02/28/2016 08:10 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
Can *anyone* take it upon themselves to (let's say) say "Brett, you unilaterally changed the policy with no discussion or consultation and just four minutes notice. That is unspeakably rude and total jerk behaviour, so under your own rules you're out of here"? I'm not just making a rhetorical point. I wouldn't accept that sort of unilateral behaviour from my work colleagues.
It wasn't a unilateral decision. If it was then I would have just done it without opening an issue or bringing it up here. I mentioned it here just in case someone might get upset by it (which obviously happened).
FWIW, Eric Smith and myself (co-"owners" of the mailing list) supported this when Brett asked.
I hope, Steven, you're by now convinced that this wasn't a cloak-and-dagger operation (really, for volunteer work there is no such thing as "business hours").
Neither is it a unique thing for a python.org mailing list. This is especially important: what is so different about python-ideas that it needs the CoC, while -committers doesn't? Much better to be consistent and to have the same standards applied to every list (eventually).
cheers, Georg