I’m not a Python contributor, so no need to apologize to me. But if you have strong ideas about what Python should be, perhaps you should step up and contribute that code rather than saying that others are offering excuses for why they won’t deliver what you want. I have worked on other open source projects where users were very entitled, to the point of demanding that the project team deliver them certain features. It’s not fun. It’s ironic that open source often brings out both the best and the worst in people. Suggesting changes and new features is fine, even critical to a strong roadmap. But we all need to realize that maintainers may have other goals and there’s no obligation on their part to implement anything. The beauty of open source is that you can customize or fork as much as you want to match your goals. But then you’re responsible for doing the work and if your changes are public you may have your own set of users demanding their own favorite changes.
I get the motivation. Nothing wrong with that. Like I said, input is valuable for roadmaps. Just be respectful of the people who are working for FREE on Python. Unless you’re paying them, they don’t owe you anything, and saying that your dev team is already using Python and it would be difficult to change doesn’t really change that. They still don’t owe you anything.
I’m not a Python contributor, so no need to apologize to me. But if you have strong ideas about what Python should be, perhaps you should step up and contribute that code rather than saying that others are offering excuses for why they won’t deliver what you want. I have worked on other open source projects where users were very entitled, to the point of demanding that the project team deliver them certain features. It’s not fun. It’s ironic that open source often brings out both the best and the worst in people. Suggesting changes and new features is fine, even critical to a strong roadmap. But we all need to realize that maintainers may have other goals and there’s no obligation on their part to implement anything. The beauty of open source is that you can customize or fork as much as you want to match your goals. But then you’re responsible for doing the work and if your changes are public you may have your own set of users demanding their own favorite changes.
This comment said it best: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428341
I get the motivation. Nothing wrong with that. Like I said, input is valuable for roadmaps. Just be respectful of the people who are working for FREE on Python. Unless you’re paying them, they don’t owe you anything, and saying that your dev team is already using Python and it would be difficult to change doesn’t really change that. They still don’t owe you anything.
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