Sorry, I lied. It's been a while and I misremembered. The package mentioned in the blog post was removed of the author's free will, and PyPI doesn't police submissions.
-- Devin On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that sexism >> is just another form of racism. > > One can understand that sexism is a terrible thing, and at the same > time make sexist jokes. > >> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going to make >> a racist comment against Chinese people. > > This is a joke, right? Making some kind of racist remark about Chinese > people wouldn't help anything at all, and it's hypocritical given your > stance on sexist jokes. It's one thing to make a joke, to make people > laugh, and inadvertently hurt someone's feelings. It's much worse to > make a malicious comment to try to hurt someone deliberately. > > On a slightly different note, PyPI uploads are in fact already > policed. See http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2011/07/childish-behavior.html > for an example > > Coincidentally, it also involved a joke that the PyPI maintainers > found in poor taste. It's also a good example, if you read deeper into > the history of the name and project, of how overzealous policing of > these jokes can drive people away from your community, just as > underzealous policing can. Please be less angry and more careful, and > appreciate that, most likely, nobody here is operating under evil > intentions. They are just operating under what you might call poor > taste. > > -- Devin > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Alexander Kapps <alex.ka...@web.de> wrote: >> Uh oh, should I really send this? ... Yes. Yes, I should! Sorry, I cannot >> resists. >> >> >>>>> allow everyone to do "import girlfriend" >> >> >>> I'm betting on a joke, like antigravity only significantly less >>> funny and more sexist. >> >> >> Absolutely not funny. I hope that someday people will understand that sexism >> is just another form of racism. >> >> I was about to write a really harsh reply, but cooled down before I got a >> chance to hit the Send button. >> >> Felinx Lee: Do apologize and rename your package/module or I'm going to make >> a racist comment against Chinese people. >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
