Reviewing, I may have misinterpreted the message from PSF Executive Director regarding the situation.

It does appear that python-ideas moderators contacted postmaster@. Appears I misread a message saying “it looks like it’s happening on python-dev too” to mean that the request was for both lists.

Should I disable moderation on python-dev?

-Ernest


On June 29, 2020 at 4:20:45 PM, Tim Peters (tim.peters@gmail.com) wrote:

[Ernest W. Durbin III <ernest@python.org>]
> At the request of the list moderators of python-ideas and python-dev,
> both lists have been placed into emergency moderation mode. All
> new posts must be approved before landing on the list.
>
> When directed by the list moderators, this moderation will be disabled.

I do at least 99% of python-dev moderation actions, and this was news
to me. I'm not going to reject anything Python-related based on
whether I (or anyone else) agree(s) with its political spin. If
that's what's wanted, please contact whichever python-dev moderator(s)
did request this, and tell them the job of actually doing python-dev
moderation is all theirs until this passes. Otherwise anything
Python-related short of pure abuse will be approved.

Seriously. I'm not going to reject sincere "you're a racist!" posts or
"I know you are, but what am I?" posts. But I don't even know whether
that's what this is about - all I've seen is some moderately heated
discussion, none of which I would have rejected.