On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:18:39 am Tim Peters 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 ;-)
I'd like to second that. Mark has been pushy, annoying and demanding, although he has his bad points too *grins*. Seriously, Mark has brought a remarkable amount of energy to the tracker, for good and bad. The good shouldn't give him a Get Out Of Jail Free card forever, but in the absence of any knowledge of what lead to Mark's tracker privileges being revoked, I have no objections in principle to giving him a second chance if the devs decide that is acceptable and Mark is willing. (Not that my objections carry much weight.) Either way, I would like to publicly thank Mark for his efforts and wish him the best for the future. [...] > 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 ;-) I don't see why. Mark's emails often do sound defiant and passive-aggressive. Is that something we're supposed to ignore? And as for issues, Mark himself has explicitly and publicly mentioned them on this very list, and we *can't* deal with them. Nor should we be expected to. Mark has done good work, dealing with many issues in the tracker during a remarkably short time. But he's also managed to annoy and upset a number of people in a remarkably short time too. The long term health of Python depends more on the community than the existence of a few bugs more or less. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ 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
