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

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 02🔞39 CEST 2010

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 ;-)

speaking-as-one-who-has-issues-no-community-can-deal-with-ly y'rs - tim

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