[s73v3r_]

No. For something of this nature, it is not entitlement to expect the people working on the core team to treat it like a professional. The entitlement comes when you believe that you can take a project like this, that millions of people are using to affect billions more, and treat it like a little hobby project.

[msla]

You're using a lot of words to say nothing concrete.

What, precisely, do you mean by "professional", and how is the Python team not being "professional" right now? Because the definition of "professional" I use is "Doing something for money, as a profession", with no implications about the quality of the work, and that's obviously not what you mean by it... right?

[skybrian]

Open source code is a gift. You don't have any right to demand this of them, and neither does anyone else. (What could possibly give you this right?)

If the governance of an open source project is bad enough, the way to fix it is to get a group of people together to maintain a fork. (Companies that depend on open source software can and will maintain their own branches.)

[s73v3r_]

"Open source code is a gift."

And the ability to work on it is a gift, too. If you're not going to take working on something as high profile as Python seriously, if you're just going to treat it as a hobby, then do everyone a favor and don't bother.

"You don't have any right to demand this of them"

As a user of Python, I absolutely do.

[skybrian]

Being a user of Python only gives you the rights granted to you in the software license. If you'll read it over you'll see it doesn't include any right to make any demands of the developers.