[jamesboehmer]

This is enlightening, I didn’t know the bar was so high to contribute to python. But imagine a scenario where any unverified bot could spam the python devs with small or malicious PRs. I get that the hoops to jump through here are frustrating, but the process makes sure my production code isn’t built on wild west languages and frameworks.

[marssaxman]

I doubt that anyone designed this process intentionally, or that anyone involved in everyday Python development is consciously aware of it as a process; this sort of mess typically accumulates organically, through a series of individually-reasonable decisions.

[nerdponx]

It also seems like a pretty typical procedure for a large software project. Let's not fall into the HN trap of "Python/NodeJS does bad thing (that everyone else also does), therefore Python/NodeJS bad, you must switch to Go."