On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yikes - Mark has done terrific work in some very demanding areas, & > I'd hate to see him feel unwelcome. So that's my advice: find a way > to smooth this over. You're welcome ;-) > > [Guido] >>> ... >>> I understand the desire to keep dirty laundry in. I would like to keep >>> it in too. Unfortunately the offending person in this case chose not >>> to; I will not speculate about his motivation. This is not unusual; I >>> can recall several incidents over the past few years (all completely >>> different in every detail of course) where someone blew up publicly >>> and there wasn't much of a chance to keep the incident under wraps. I >>> see it as the risk of doing business in public -- which to me still >>> beats the risk of doing business in back rooms many times over. > > [Mark Lawrence] >> If you're referring to me I'm extremely offended. Yes or no? > > Have to confess I can't see what's offensive in what Guido wrote > there. If you're inclined to feel offended, how about going back to > Guido's: > > Which to me sounds defiant and passive-aggressive. I don't > want to go into analyzing, but I expect that Mark has issues > that are beyond what this community can deal with. > > Even I felt a bit offended by that one ;-)
That was not one of my finer moments, and I apologize. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
