On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:13 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 3 May 2018 at 12:29 Guido van Rossum <gvanros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> EVENTUALLY WE'LL ALL BE SHOUTING ALL THE TIME. Sad. >> > > Yep. And that leads to burn-out. So while Ivan may have lucked out in > getting the attention of people who are helped him (and given the wrong > kind of positive reinforcement that this approach is reasonable), this can > lead to people quitting open source and not being available to help you > next time (e.g. notice how it drove Paul Moore over the edge to pull back > for a week or so and he may have been the expert you needed for packaging > or me for imports; IOW I would say Ivan was lucky this time and may not be > so lucky next time). > > -Brett > > Yup. Tolerance has to have its limits, and this came close to abusive behaviour. I suspect others among us might have been guilty of similar behaviours in the past I certainly couldn't cast the first stone), but times change as do standards, and it's certainly not the tone the majority of the readers of this list would want, I believe. Let's hope this message continues to come across loud and clear. regards Steve
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