[pypy-dev] AOSA book chapter

[Carl Friedrich Bolz]

Hi all,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> wrote:
>> As some of you may know, this past year I wrote a chapter about PyPy
>> for Architecture of Open Source Applications Volume 2. It has brought
>> to my attention that my communication with the PyPy community about it
>> was poor. Since it deeply involved the PyPy project, I should have
>> been more public in its writing; I should have sent it to pypy-dev for
>> review and comments. Now that this has been pointed out to me, it's
>> painfully obvious that I fell short.
>>
>> Next time such an opportunity arises, I look forward to working fully
>> with the PyPy community on it.
>>
>> Please accept my apologies,

Accepted, thank you for writing this mail.

> Without wanting to step on anyone's toes, I don't think you had any
> obligation to notify us.  I haven't read your chapter, but I look forward to
> it and the rest of AOSA.

I agree, no obligation. But it would still have been much fairer to do
it, given that both open source as well as science work based on
reputation.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich