Actual quote by "a Python Software Foundation fellow and contrib-

utor to Python infrastructure projects"

What frustrates me most is that we have an all-time high of

Python developers and an all-time low on high quality contri-

butions.[...] As soon as pivotal developers like Armin Ronacher

slow down their churn, the whole community feels it immedi-

ately. The moment Paul Kehrer stops working on PyCA we’re

screwed. If Hawkowl stops porting, Twisted will never be on

Python 3 and git.

So we’re bleeding due to people who cause more work than they

provide. [...] Right now everyone is benefitting from what has

been built but due to lack of funding and contributions it’s

deteriorating. I find that worrying, because Python might be

super popular right now but once the consequences hit us, the

opportunists will leave as fast as they arrived

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