Open letter to BDFL begging forgiveness.

[Robert J. Hansen]

ObWarning: I'm not Guido.  I'm not even a friend of Guido.

That said, some people think I have a clue about the open-source
community, so maybe this will be worth something.  And perhaps it
won't.  Take it with a grain of salt.

> However, I am beginning to suspect that my status as persona
> non grata in your eyes is getting in the way of other people in
> this group to accept me.

This may be a hard thing to come to terms with, but you're probably not
important enough to be persona non grata.  After all, in order to be
persona non grata you have to be... a persona.  No, no, I'm not telling
you that you're not a person.  But ask yourself: what have you done for
Python lately?  What have you done to warrant being treated like a Kent
Pitman, a James Kanze, a Peter Seibel, an Alex Martelli, just to pick a
few well-known and well-respected names from various programming
languages?

Join mailing lists.  Become active in a user's group.  Write code.  Be
generous with your knowledge.  Help newbies.  Practice humility.
Always ask yourself, "could I be wrong here?"

Do it for long enough and you'll get a reputation for being a
productive member of the community.  And then you'll find that you
never needed 'forgiveness' at all.