Please note that I didn’t ask for an official response (the first reply did). I wanted to start a community discussion. CoC WG and SC members are certainly parts of the community too, but a numerically small part.
There wasn’t anything hasty about this on my side. I wrote the OP, off & on, over several days, starting when Karl first publicly self-identified as neurodivergent. I expected the eventual outcome, not based on “neurodivergent” alone, but from what I knew of their specific patterns from earlier experience.
When it happened, I made a few final edits, and posted,
I appreciate and regret that the timing is at best inconvenient for you, but I have to confess I wasn’t thinking about you (in the larger sense of WG/SC members) - I wanted to invite the larger community to engage before it faded from memory. Part of which includes me - it will soon enough fade from my memory too. I wanted to get the post done before I reverted to comfortable complacency. “Out of sight, out of mind” is very powerful,
Now that it’s done, I’d advise y’all to try some patience too. Let it play out? There aren’t any flame wars erupting in this topic yet, and none would be welcomed by me either. There’s no rush. The topic has come up, off and on, across years. This time is already the most substantive discussion of it I’ve seen in Python-world.