[python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

[Brian Curtin]

On Saturday, February 27, 2016, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:

> Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes:
>
> > I noticed that the devguide didn't explicitly mention that core
> developers
> were expected to follow the PSF CoC
> (https://docs.python.org/devguide/coredev.html and
> https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/, respectively). I have
> opened http://bugs.python.org/issue26446 to make sure it gets documented.
> > Since this is technically a modification of the requirements of getting
> commit privileges I wanted to mention it here before I (or anyone else)
> made
> the change.
>
> When I started here, the PSF and python-dev were considered disjoint
> entities (quoting MvL from memory). Looking at
>
>   https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/history/ ,
>
> half of the current directors have never appeared anywhere on the
> python-dev
> infrastructure, most notably on python-checkins.
>
> Contrast this with e.g. the period of 2003-2004, where I still know all of
> the directors even though I did not know Python at that time!
>
> Some very prolific contributors do not appear in the list of PSF members
> at all.
>
>
> This particular CoC specifically addresses conference misbehavior, which is
> fine.


FYI It has nothing to do with conferences.
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