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Re: Contributors Leaving Pytest

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three contributors have left: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pytest-dev/2020-April/0049...

this is sad but echoes something i have seen far too many times. i wish them the best luck. especially at times like these; they need to prioritize mental health over dealing with individuals online.

sometimes it's not even about trolling but about having a bigger voice than others online...

Re: Contributors Leaving Pytest

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What's going on? I can't find anything concrete edit: Seems to have something to do with the CoC?

No, the only issue with the CoC is that it seems unable to resolve the situation. They have a CoC board but apparently it won’t act in this case.

Re: Contributors Leaving Pytest

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I don’t understand why the problematic individual is not named. I guess most people in the pytest community know who it is, but other communities need to be warned too, in case s/he moves on to some other project.

Re: Contributors Leaving Pytest

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I feel very uncomfortable whenever I read a code-of-conduct, including the PyTest one:

https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/CODE_OF_CON...

I don’t think there’s anything wrong at all with the spirit of such documents, but they seem to normalize a world where bad behavior is regulated by well-intentioned ad hoc legalese.

In the good old days, one would receive on the spot practical training on how to behave by ones parents, friends, older siblings, teachers etc. I suspect my revulsion at reading codes of conducts is part of me being in denial that there are so many more people in the world now, on the internet, who were raised by the social / etiquette equivalent of animals.

Re: Contributors Leaving Pytest

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post #7
post #5

What's going on? I can't find anything concrete edit: Seems to have something to do with the CoC?

No, the only issue with the CoC is that it seems unable to resolve the situation. They have a CoC board but apparently it won’t act in this case.

I was judging from [1]: "I am contemplating to follow the #pytest exodus, I previously left the CoC team because of the issue at hand"

[1] https://twitter.com/ossronny/status/1248674298807627778

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