Twas brillig at 02:42:09 08.09.2009 UTC-07 when vor...@debian.org did gyre and 
gimble:

 SL> Spare me your ignorant preaching and go read the mailing list
 SL> archives.

Mailing list archives are not documentation.

 SL> It once lived at <http://people.debian.org/~piman/python-policy/> -
 SL> before the python policy process degenerated into such an absurd
 SL> mess that the maintainer left Debian entirely.

Policy did not have any kind of rationale. I read it many times. The
only question was: WHY??

 SL> No, I'm not a dictator; I'm just a member of the Debian Release
 SL> Team who has watched in frustration as the python political
 SL> nonsense has failed for three years to deliver anything that
 SL> actually facilitates python version transitions - which was the
 SL> main reason for drafting a new python policy in the first place.

This is not clear from the policy.

 SL> Thanks for pissing on the release team.

Thanks for beating straw man.

 >> Single "why?" document would help to resolve situation much better than
 >> endless whining about "bad python-support developers". Just accept the
 >> facts that you've failed to communicate ideas behind policy,

 SL> The python-support maintainer knows the reasons already.  This was
 SL> not a failure of communication, only a failure of collaboration.

It would not be accepted in first place if there would be written
rationale behind the policy.

When I first had to chose between the helpers I went with the one which
did not require me to pass magic jumbo-jumbo, and that was
python-support with clearly stated the REASONS for all the
stuff. python-central was the magic: "add this here and don't even try
to ask us why it needs to be here".

 >> reevaluate situation and propose something that is constructive,
 >> this will be beneficial for all of us.

 SL> And why would that work any better now than it did three years ago? 

You've got an experience: unwritten knowledge leads to truely idiotic
situations like current one.

 SL> If anything, the responses in this thread show that the list is far
 SL> more beset with python-support apologists now, who are even less
 SL> willing to approach the problem from a policy perspective and are
 SL> only interested in defending their favorite tool.

I would repeat own words: BULLSHIT. But I don't want to discuss at this
level. I know you're pissed of, but this won't help resolve situation.

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