[Python-Dev] Goodbye

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Sep 22 17:42:13 CEST 2010


On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:29:23 +0900
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum writes:
> 
>  > I would recommend that in the future more attention is paid to
>  > "documenting" publicly that someone's being booted out was
>  > inevitable, by an exchange of messages on python-dev (or
>  > python-committers if we want to limit distribution).  And no, I
>  > don't think that IRC (where I suspect this happened) is sufficient.
> 
> +1 on explaining "what" and "why" where the committers can see it, and
> +1 on limiting distribution.
> 
> The one time I lifted someone's privileges that's the way I did it (by
> luck, mostly).  In hindsight, the fact that it was all done in plain
> sight of the committers made it easy for us to put the incident behind
> us.  The fact that it was only visible to the committers made it
> easier mend the relationship later.

I guess python-committers would have been the best recipient indeed.
Sorry for that.

Regards

Antoine.


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