Final statement from Steering Council on politically-charged commit messages

[Dylan Distasio]

That's quite an interesting ruling by the SC.  I'm not surprised to see
them bend the knee to PC, but it is disheartening to see they're fine
opening a can of political worms in a programming language.  I suspect they
will deplore messages outside of their bubble though.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 2:30 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> For context, see this commit:
>
>
> https://github.com/python/peps/commit/0c6427dcec1e98ca0bd46a876a7219ee4a9347f4
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> The commit message is highly politically charged and is now a
> permanent part of the Python commit history. The Python Steering
> Council has this to say:
>
> https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/34#issuecomment-675028005
>
> "The SC discussed this and ... we do not deplore the message."
>
> So now we know: go ahead and put all the political messages you like
> into the commit messages, just don't put anything inappropriate into
> the content. White supremacy has been mentioned; who wants to pick the
> next hot topic?
>
> ChrisA
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