On 4/14/2014 5:16 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Apr 14, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org > <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io >> <mailto:donald at stufft.io>> wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu >> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>> wrote: >> > On 4/14/2014 11:32 AM, Steve Dower wrote: >> [...] >> >> However unfair >> >> and incorrect it may be, there is a perception in some businesses >> >> that open-source projects do not want contributions from them. I took this to mean that they think any 'do not want' is peculiar to them as from a business. Perhaps I was wrong to project that on them. >> > For PSF/CPython, this is so untrue that it looks to me like an >> excuse to take without giving back. What I meant would be untrue would be a claim that this project does not want contributions in particular from people in business organizations. A generic claim that pydev is unwelcoming or sometimes off-putting to newcomers, for instance, would be a different issue. >> As someone who *has* given back, I can certainly understand why >> someone would feel that way. It often times *does* feel like >> CPython doesn’t want contributions. >> Donald, your remark in itself sounds unnecessarily (and >> unproductively!) passive-aggressive. What have we done wrong to you, >> and what can we do to avoid making the same mistake in the future (to >> you, and to others)? > Hmm, I’m sorry if I came across that way. I didn’t mean to. I do think > contributing directly to CPython is often times off-putting to people Change 'often' to 'sometimes' and I would agree. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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