[Python-Dev] I hope this won't be my last comment here ~ yet it may well be...

[Burkhard Meier]

Ok. no more ellipses...what I was trying to share is an unhappy experience
I had with the open source Linux community.

I am sure this will not happen on this Python Dev list of professionals.

Please ignore my comments.

>From now on I will focus on contributing to Python (especially on a Windows
platform) and not taking up valuable reading time.


Burkhard

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

>
>  I'm really confused -- you had a handful of very positive responses to
> your offer to help with Python on Windows.
>
> Then a couple off the cuff remarks (at least one of which was serious)
> about what is often known as "the bus factor":
>
> But I think you may want to take into account the history here. This has
> been talked about A LOT in the Python community for years -- so we may be a
> bit blase about it. Note that Wikipedia's page on the bus factor:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
>
> """An early instance of this sort of query was when Michael McLay publicly
> asked, in 1994, what would happen to the Python language
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)> if Guido
> van Rossum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum> were hit by a
> bus.[8] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor#cite_note-8>"""
>
> So this has been very, very well hashed out in the Python community.
>
> And a quick look at the existence of this list, the messages on it, and
> the source repo will tell you that Python is in no way a personal project
> of one person. (not to mentions the PSF)
>
> I think the lessons here are:
>
> - don't be too sensitive
>
> and, important for every open source community:
>
> - your comments and questions will be taken far more seriously if you have
> done your homework.
>
> -CHB
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Burkhard Meier <burkhardameier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Please do allow me to share my humble experiences of being a software
>> professional on a Windows platform.
>>
>> Almost 20 years.
>>
>> You know what; when I tried out 'sugar Linux' or Peppermint,,,the "admin'
>> dude kicked me out 5 times in one sole eve,
>>
>> Maybe this is just *me*..
>>
>> You know what: I did have my time with this *open source community*...
>>
>> I was just asking a sincere question.
>>
>> C'mon
>>
>> This was rather very ridiculous.
>>
>>
>>
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