[svat]

Some previous related discussions on this:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41212788 ["The Shameful Defenestration of Tim" by Chris McDonough]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41515766 ["A Mess in the Python Community", lwn.net]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385546 ["A post by Guido van Rossum removed for violating Python community guidelines"]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41314393 ["Calling for a Vote of No Confidence in the Python Steering Council"]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234180 ["Core Python developer suspended for three months"]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187470 ["Three month suspension for Python core developer"]

[CoastalCoder]

My main source of information about this specific kerfuffle is from Chris McDonough's response, which seems pretty compelling to me.

Can anyone point me to a detailed response from the other side? (Beyond their initial announcement, I mean.)

Experience tells me to hear both sides of a story before buying a pitchfork.

[zahlman]

Aside from what's publicly visible on the Discourse forum in the PSF and Committers sections (https://discuss.python.org/c/python-software-foundation/9 and https://discuss.python.org/c/committers/5 respectively) I'm not aware of any formal statements, unless perhaps you count Steering Council updates (https://github.com/python/steering-council). The PSF runs a blog at https://pyfound.blogspot.com/, but I see nothing substantial there there isn't entirely redundant (e.g. a copy-paste of the "Python’s Supportive and Welcoming Environment is Tightly Coupled to Its Progress" letter).

I have seen commentary by a few of them on social media - mostly, per my impression, vague expressions of annoyance at the stress supposedly caused by Code of Conduct enforcement (note that in the post announcing my ban, Mr. Langa disclosed an unusually high recent volume of forum flags: approximately one per moderator per day) and at people having opinions differing from their own.

Edit: since I was looking things up to assemble the above links - I notice that Ethan Furman has made a further complaint about Mr. Peters' treatment in absentia: https://discuss.python.org/t/soliciting-feedback-from-a-susp...