[Phillip J. Eby]

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Actually, I started out with "please" -- twice, after having previously asked please in advance. I've also seen lots of messages on Python-Dev where Tim Peters wrote about having wasted time due to other folks not following established procedures, and I tried to emulate his tone. I guess I didn't do a very good job, but not everybody is as funny as Tim is. :)

... [Steve Holden]

I wonder what the hell's up with Tim. He's been really crabby lately ...

Moi? Not at all! Once or twice a year I do get pissed off when a period of scant free time coincides with a period of people checking in test-breaking changes that _would_ have failed on their own box had they bothered to run the tests at all. That's plain bad practice, and deserves all the flaming pixels a mythical authority figure can conjure up in opposition. But that hasn't happened lately (test_wsgiref only failed under -O, and I don't expect people to run tests that way routinely -- I run the tests 8 ways when a release is coming up).

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Anyway, will anyone who was offended by the original message please pretend that it was delightfully witty and written by Tim instead? Thanks. ;)

No -- but because I wasn't offended to begin with. Let's compromise: everyone can pretend they wrote this message instead, so if nobody replies everyone can pretend they got the last word :-)