> CPython is an organization that overpromises, allocates jobs to the obedient and faithful while weeding out competent dissenters.
This stinks of BS
It sounds like an oblique reference to that time they temporarily suspended one of the of the most valuable members of the community, apparently for having the audacity to suggest that their powers to suspend members of the community seemed a little arbitrary and open to abuse.
Well they could just say that instead of wasting people's time with oblique references
Re:The first year of free-threaded Python
by robertlagrant on Friday May 16, 2025 @10:07AM
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Saying "This stinks of BS" is going to mean you have little standing to criticise other people for wasting time.
Temporarily? Tim Peters got reinstated?
Apparently so: https://lwn.net/Articles/1002340/
Microsoft also fired a whole lot of other open source people unrelated to Python in this current layoff
Additionally, at this stage the severe political and governance problems cannot have escaped Microsoft. I imagine that no competent Microsoft employee wants to give his expertise to CPython, only later to suffer group defamation from a couple of elected mediocre people.
CPython is an organization that overpromises, allocates jobs to the obedient and faithful while weeding out competent dissenters.
It wasn't always like that. The issues are entirely self-inflicted.