[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.