Closed benblank closed 10 months ago
The phrasing in the project description is already factual, complete with references. Your disparaging it as "hostile" and "inflammatory" is, quite frankly, just that.
If the PyCQA chooses to ignore its own Code of Conduct, that's deplorable, but also in the volunteer nature of things. It does not, however, mean that we all have to close our eyes and pretend it never happened. Least of all, in order to cater to the vaguely defined needs of business environments, where such unprofessional behavior would not be tolerated.
Please use an alternative to either this project or pyproject.toml
. There are plenty.
Flake8-pyproject provides a very simple solution to what is clearly a common irritation and I'm certainly glad it exists. However, I find myself hesitant to use it in published projects because I'm uncomfortable implicitly "endorsing" the phrasing used in the project's description of itself.
It's pretty clear those paragraphs were born from the same frustration that the entire project was, but I think they come off as pretty hostile towards our fellow developers. I'd be a lot more comfortable with a less inflammatory tone, and I suspect that's even more true for developers working in business environments (which tend to be even more cautious with appearances and communication).
This PR changes only the introductory paragraphs near the top of
ReadMe.md
andPyPI.md
. I've tried to shift the tone towards a more "stating the facts" voice without altering too much what is being said.The diffs are below, of course, but for clarity, here are the new paragraphs I'm proposing: