[grandalf]

Uh, what if every would-be open source contributor wrote a grandstanding blog post promising only to submit patches if the maintainer(s) publicly eat crow for an offhand remark they made ... :)

Zed is a gifted hacker of software systems, but I don't really think he's all that good dealing with other mammals.

[Leon]

Is it necessary to use character attacks for what should be a technical discussion on the project management of the python base?

[grandalf]

not intended as a character attack at all... any more than Zed's was an attack on Guido's character.

[FooBarWidget]

I met Zed in real life. I can assure you that he's really good at dealing with people offline.

[grandalf]

I'm sure he's a nice guy -- he actually seems like the kind of person I'd be friends with -- I just think it's appropriate to sort of call him out on the grandiose blog posts :)

I'm all for it to the extent that Zed is building his personal brand and (in essence) being a self-promoter. If he really feels self-righteous about it, then that's a bit worrisome.

Zed vs Guido is exactly the sort of David vs Goliath story that makes for entertaining reading...

[SteveC]

That sounded somewhat sinister.