Final statement from Steering Council on politically-charged commit messages

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On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 1:26:33 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> For context, see this commit:
> 
> https://github.com/python/peps/commit/0c6427dcec1e98ca0bd46a876a7219ee4a9347f4
> 
> 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

It should be noted that these Darlings Of Conspicuous Caring are still using that - gasp! - horrid  "master' branch.  The very idea ...