Do we really need another public vilification of the PSF for all the work they’ve put in?
Let me pick apart this statement:
- “another public vilification” - The PSF is under public criticism justifiedly, that is not vilification. PSF should engage with the criticism rather than dismiss it as “vilification”
- “work they´ve put in” - apparently not the basic operational work that any normal organisation should do, financial statements, budgets, and communicating the to decision making stakeholders - the PSF members and the worldwide python communtiy?
It’s pretty obvious where that leads.
Kind of obvious?
And that justifies PSF to punish the weakest in the equation, instead of, say, reducing salaries, or laying off staff in the US on extremely high salaries (in international comparison), or replacing staff in the US by equivalently competent staff in Africa or Asia?
You demand a time consuming audit of the PSF’s finances
Basic financial statements, budgeting is not a “time consuming audit”. Create an excel table and publish it at least to the members. Do this ahead of time and not after excrement hits the ventilator.
seek to dismantle the PSF before you’ve even seen it.
I think we all have seen enough to make this call.
The argument for devolution (not dismantling), so empowering the local communities by giving them the decision making power and budgeting power, holds even without the egregious blunders of the current PSF management.