[Python-Dev] Goodbye (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Sep 23 02:31:18 CEST 2010

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at 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)

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