"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Antoine Pitrou]

Ned Batchelder <ned <at> nedbatchelder.com> writes:
> 
> 
> I never said they were the whole community, of course. But they are not 
> outliers either. By your own statistics above, 23% of respondents think 
> Python 3 was a mistake.  Armin and Kenneth are just two very visible 
> people.

Indeed, they are two very visible people.

> I'm not creating rock stars.  I'm acknowledging that these two people 
> are listened to by many others.  It sounds like part of your effort to 
> avoid rockstars is to ignore any one person's specific feedback?  I must 
> be misunderstanding what you mean.

I am not trying to ignore "any one person's specific feedback". I am 
ignoring your claim that we should give Armin's blog posts an
extraordinary importance because he is "revered".

Speaking of which, posting blog articles is not the preferred way to
give feedback. There are ample community resources for that. I am
irritated that we are apparently supposed to be monitoring blog posts, 
Twitter feeds and whatnot for any sign of dissent, and immediately react
to a criticism that wasn't even voiced directly to us.

> You are being given detailed specific feedback from intelligent 
> dedicated customers that many people listen to,

Could you please stop talking about customers? We are not selling
Python to anyone (*). Writing open source software as a volunteer is 
not supposed to be a sacrificial activity where we will bow with
extreme diligence to the community's every outburst. Please try to
respect us.

((*) Wikipedia: "A customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or 
purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or idea,
obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier for a monetary or other 
valuable consideration")

Regards

Antoine.