Great, I'm sure it will end up with a good solution eventually. Unfortunate that it had to be this heated about this change.
R. Hettinger needed to learn to always be graceful when commenting or criticizing the work of others, especially volunteers.
And we all saw how wild the difference is in engagement for a project like ipython between the "normal" level and the "viral" level. Users are just using it and depending on it, never interacting with the project, but if something attracts attention it can be like a thousand flies flocking to it. Often when something gets negative attention..
There are several main personalities in the python-dev space:
1) People who easily get passionate but are gentlemen when it counts. R. Hettinger is one of these.
2) People who get passionate and are politicians. GvR is one of those and he is above the CoC.
3) Vicious politicians who always remain calm. These are the most dangerous, are often mediocre and climb the ladder at various large corporations. Some of these have not contributed much.
4) Some really nice people. You generally won't see much of them in discussions.
R. Hettinger is independent and honest, unlike the snake pit that runs Python.
After this comment the submission dropped from place 25 to place 56 in less than 10 minutes. Suppression of opinion is a standard PSF politician tactic.
— Matthias Bussonnier, https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/13463#issuecomment...