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All CoCs are weapons and used all the time to harm the project they were forced upon. "Python Software Foundation's Code of Conduct Working Group" just wow. And the person who did this is exactly the kind of person we all expect

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Please explain to me exactly you mean by "exactly the kind of person we all expect" because evidently I'm not part of "we all" because I don't know what you mean.

There's strong stereotypes around people in technical projects, but without technical roles and actively working against the project. But as so often, they're very much true for this individual (the one who posted about the suspension, is part of that stupid "working group" and is boasting about it on "his" socials. I don't think this should be detailed further. Curiously, the same person was also in charge for the last python release, which featured a very political message in its release notes.

Which political message was this? Is it somewhere in here?

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/index.html

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3120/

Wow, that's a dramatic shift from previous "And now for something completely different" sections, even the 3.11 one (whereas a lot of these ideas have been circulating among the higher-ups for years). It seems like these sections were introduced with the 3.8 release, and initially involved actual Monty Python sketch quotes.

"Busybody ideological crusader who wants to foist their political ideology upon everyone and everything around them" would be my take, are you sure you're clueless as to what was meant by it?

It can be a bit of a stretch but maybe the pettiness often seen in HOAs is being expressed in something like a Code Owners' Association, when it devolves from complete focus on the common welfare.

Some people just love being annoyingly influential with undue power in their little fiefdom.

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