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Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

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Re: Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

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> Unlike many community non-profits (including the Python Software Foundation), Ruby Central does not hold elections for their board of directors. The PSF is a hellhole where everyone tries to cancel each other. People like David Mertz and Steve Holden [1] who supported other cancellations were cancelled themselves. And of course Tim Peters for opposing other cancellations . You are only secure in the corporate inner…

No links in this post by a green account, and people ate it up.

PSF drama is pretty well known at this point, imho. The Tim Peters scandal was well covered on HN. Nothing the GP said surprised me

Re: Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No links in this post by a green account, and people ate it up.

PSF drama is pretty well known at this point, imho. The Tim Peters scandal was well covered on HN. Nothing the GP said surprised me

The framing is wrong. Not even Tim Peters says it was a cancellation attempt or anything like that. Bans, especially temporary ones, are not cancellations.

To be honest though, I think cancellation is a buzzword.

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