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That is all good and well. Unfortunately, it degenerated into a tyranny where a small group of mediocre people grabbed power, censored the infrastructure and threatened people with defamation if they didn't obey.

Most developers have left or have been driven out. The remaining ones do corporate projects that generally underdeliver.

>>bgwalt+(OP)
Lol, what does this mean?

>>toenai+23
Most recently Tim Peters was suspended and many people found the suspension reasons unjustified. I assume the GP is referring to similar events.

>>ayhanf+Y4
Of the Timsort fame, wow.

>>ayhanf+Y4
Ah, that makes sense, thanks. A few years ago I saw bullying and harassment in one Python project that was instigated by the code of conduct committee. Seems like history is repeating..

>>bgwalt+(OP)
This is very normal - people like that are drawn to the free money available at foundations. Thankfully uv etc from Astral are doing what the very medicore minds at the PSF cannot.

>>ahoka+z6
Timsort, the Zen of Python, and many other things. Over 2500 commits to the CPython repository overall (11th on the all-time list). Quite good at explaining details of how floating-point works, especially as relates to Python, IMX. And extraordinarily helpful over a long period of time: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user%3A2705542+is%3Aanswe...

>>zahlma+HS1
And still an important voice in the Python community: https://discuss.python.org/u/tim.one/summary