Spamming PyPI with stupid packages

[Devin Jeanpierre]

Sorry, I lied. It's been a while and I misremembered. The package
mentioned in the blog post was removed of the author's free will, and
PyPI doesn't police submissions.

-- Devin

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that sexism
>> is just another form of racism.
>
> One can understand that sexism is a terrible thing, and at the same
> time make sexist jokes.
>
>> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going to make
>> a racist comment against Chinese people.
>
> This is a joke, right? Making some kind of racist remark about Chinese
> people wouldn't help anything at all, and it's hypocritical given your
> stance on sexist jokes. It's one thing to make a joke, to make people
> laugh, and inadvertently hurt someone's feelings. It's much worse to
> make a malicious comment to try to hurt someone deliberately.
>
> On a slightly different note, PyPI uploads are in fact already
> policed. See http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/07/childish-behavior.html
> for an example
>
> Coincidentally, it also involved a joke that the PyPI maintainers
> found in poor taste. It's also a good example, if you read deeper into
> the history of the name and project, of how overzealous policing of
> these jokes can drive people away from your community, just as
> underzealous policing can. Please be less angry and more careful, and
> appreciate that, most likely, nobody here is operating under evil
> intentions. They are just operating under what you might call poor
> taste.
>
> -- Devin
>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Alexander Kapps <alex.kapps at web.de> wrote:
>> Uh oh, should I really send this? ... Yes. Yes, I should! Sorry, I cannot
>> resists.
>>
>>
>>>>> allow everyone to do "import girlfriend"
>>
>>
>>> I'm betting on a joke, like antigravity only significantly less
>>> funny and more sexist.
>>
>>
>> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that sexism
>> is just another form of racism.
>>
>> I was about to write a really harsh reply, but cooled down before I got a
>> chance to hit the Send button.
>>
>> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going to make
>> a racist comment against Chinese people.
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