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[Python-Dev] Dealing with tone in an email (was: Drop/deprecate Tkinter?)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat May 5 12:49:15 EDT 2018 
On Sat, 5 May 2018 01:43:00 +1000
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:31:03PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
> 
> > No one is saying people can't be upset and if you are ever upset there's
> > something wrong; we're human beings after all. But those of us speaking up
> > about the tone are saying that you can also wait until you're not so upset
> > to write an email. This was never going to be resolved in an hour, so
> > waiting an hour until you're in a better place to write an email that
> > wasn't quite so inflammatory seems like a reasonable thing to ask.  
> 
> Certainly!
> 
> I'm not defending Ivan's initial email. His tantrum *was* annoying, 
> unreasonable, and unfair to those who do care about tkinter. He could 
> have done better.
> 
> But *we* should be better too. Our response to Ivan has not been 
> welcoming, and as a community we haven't lived up to our own standards, 
> as we have piled onto him to express our rightous indignation: [...]

Well summed up.

Regards

Antoine.
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