On Sat, 5 May 2018 01:43:00 +1000 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:31:03PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
No one is saying people can't be upset and if you are ever upset there's something wrong; we're human beings after all. But those of us speaking up about the tone are saying that you can also wait until you're not so upset to write an email. This was never going to be resolved in an hour, so waiting an hour until you're in a better place to write an email that wasn't quite so inflammatory seems like a reasonable thing to ask.
Certainly!
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: [...]
Well summed up. Regards Antoine.